Angered by the new rules of Chhattisgarh government, 20 doctors of the medical college cum hospital have collectively resigned. These include senior, junior, contract and regular doctors. The resignation may lead to a severe shortage of doctors in the hospital, which will affect the treatment of patients. The hospital is already struggling with shortage of staff and machines.
Angered by the new rules implemented in health services by the Chhattisgarh government, 20 doctors of the medical college cum hospital collectively submitted their resignation letters to the dean on Tuesday. Even before this, 20 doctors had resigned one by one over salary discrepancy. If the resignations of all these 20 doctors are accepted, the recognition of the medical college cum hospital may be in danger.
The doctors who resigned include senior, junior, contractual and regular doctors. Among them is Dr. Prakash Khunte, who is considered the backbone of the medical college. Already the Medical College cum Hospital is facing the problems of shortage of doctors, staff nurses, class IV employees and essential machines like City Scan, MRI, which the government has not been able to complete till now.
There is a huge shortage of doctors in the hospital
Now after the resignation of these 20 doctors, there will be a huge shortage of doctors treating patients in the hospital. The doctors who were currently providing their services have now resigned. The remaining doctors in the hospital do not contribute much in the treatment of patients. The Dialysis Center of the Medical College cum Hospital is also closed for the last one and a half month, due to which patients have to go to Bhilai and Raipur for treatment.
It is noteworthy that there are a total of 21 departments in the medical college, and it is mandatory to have at least 10-12 doctors in each department. But at present the entire medical college cum hospital was running with only 30 percent doctors.
Doctors want to practice, but they are angry with the new orders of the government. For this reason they have resigned en masse. Information about this matter has been sent to the government, although the resignations have not been accepted yet. Dr. Atul Deshkar, Dean-in-charge and Superintendent, Rajnandgaon Medical College
Know what is the new order of the Health Department
According to the new order of the Health Department, the hospitals treating patients under ‘Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Ayushman Yojana’ will have to give an affidavit, in which they will have to ensure that no doctor from any government hospital is providing services in them. . Due to this order, the pressure on doctors of government hospitals to work in private hospitals has increased.
