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Hello Jammu News at 8:13:00 PM 0



Chandigarh, Aug 3 :  More than 1,300 resident doctors at Chandigarh's premier healthcare institute PGIMER began an indefinite strike on Saturday in protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill.

Except emergency and ICU services, outpatient department (OPD) services remained affected at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here.

"Resident doctors withdrew all hospital services on Saturday. But emergency and ICU services were not disrupted," PGIMER Association of Resident Doctors president Uttam Thakur said here.

Thakur said the strike would continue indefinitely until their concerns are addressed. 

"We will not hesitate to escalate by shutting down even our Emergency and ICU services if expedited measures are not taken," he said.

PGIMER authorities have advised patients that all routine services, including OPDs and elective procedure, would remain suspended till further notice.

Stating that they had no intention to cause inconvenience to patients, the protesting doctors said they had no option but to go on strike against some provisions of the NMC Bill. 

Doctors have been protesting against some of the provisions of the NMC Bill which has been passed by the Rajya Sabha.

They have been raising concerns regarding role of community health providers (CHP) vis-a-vis a trained doctors and the NEXT (National Exit Examination).

The Bill empowers the Centre to override the decisions and recommendations of the National Medical Commission and autonomous boards. 

Protesters also pointed out that the Bill would decrease the representation of elected members from 75 per cent (as was in Medical Council of India) to 20 per cent in NMC. 

"The ambiguity of the term 'Person connected with modern medical profession' needs to be clarified. What are the checkpoints to ensure that the Community Health Providers (CHPs) will restrict to limited practice; and what will be the consequences if they exceed their prerogative," Thakur asked.

"We believe that the deficiencies of the current healthcare system cannot be fulfilled by undertrained healthcare providers. It will infact overburden the system by having to deal with the consequences of mismanaged cases," he said.

The bill takes away the autonomy of the institutes of national importance in deciding their curriculum, he said.                                                   [Agencies]
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Hello Jammu News at 11:25:00 PM 0


Srinagar, June 27 :   Principal Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar Prof. Kaisar Ahmad today chaired a meeting to review completion and subsequent operationalisation of 500 bedded paediatric hospital at Bemina Srinagar.

The hospital is coming up at an estimated cost of Rs. 89.89 crores against which Rs. 74.00 Crores have been released till date.

The meeting was attended by Chief Engineer PW(R&B) Department, Chief Engineer Mechanical Engineering Department Kashmir, Administrator Associated Hospital of GMC Srinagar, HOD Pediatrics, Medical Superintendent GB Panth Hospital, concerned Executive Engineers , and officers of Planning Development and Monitoring wing of GMC Srinagar.

Dr Kaisar said that all the pediatric sub- specialties will be provided in this hospital under one roof. He informed that the children hospital shall be catering to 0 to 18 years population which amounts to 52% of total population and this hospital has a pivotal role to play. In the meeting timelines were fixed for immediate completion of this project so that this facility is made available to the public in time.

He asked Mechanical Engineering Department to redesign the central heating system in line with the guidelines of Medical Council of India and hospital accreditation. The executing agencies shall be meeting periodically, so as to coordinate the whole process. In the initial stage supportive services and ground floor of the hospital shall be completed so that OPD is started there. Further HOD Paediatric Dr. Muzafar Jan shall provide plan of various specialties to the executing agencies on 3rd July 2019.

Chief Engineers briefed the meeting about the status of various components like Oxygen Plant, Operation theatres, CSSD equipments, Water supply and Sewerage Treatment Plant, Electric Sub Station etc. They assured their cooperation in making this prestigious hospital function in the shortest possible of time 

In the meeting, it was decided that the committee constituted by government under the chairmanship of Principal GMC Srinagar shall be meeting fortnightly to review the progress on this state of art hospital.
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Hello Jammu News at 10:24:00 PM 0


Kolkata, Jun 17 :  The protesting doctors in West Bengal on Monday agreed to withdraw their week-long stir after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced steps to scale up security at hospitals

An assurance to call off the strike came at a meeting Banerjee held with representatives of the striking doctors at the state secretariat

"We are satisfied with the meeting," a representative of the doctors said, assuring Banerjee that the strike is going to be called off

A formal announcement on withdrawal of the strike is likely to be made from the epicentre of the protest, the NRS Medical College and Hospital.                       [Agencies]
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Hello Jammu News at 11:02:00 PM 0



New Delhi, Jun 15  :   Patients in the national capital faced hardships for the second consecutive day as protest by doctors, in solidarity with their striking colleagues in Kolkata, spread to several government hospitals on Saturday.

Doctors at the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, and RML Hospital, and Delhi government's healthcare facilities such as GTB Hospital, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and DDU Hospital, boycotted work and held protests.

However, emergency and ICU services were not hampered in these hospitals.

Meanwhile resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital, who resumed work after having boycotted it on Friday, have given a 48-hour ultimatum to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to meet the demands of the state's agitating doctors, failing which they said they would go on an indefinite strike.

They attended patients wearing helmets and bandages on forehead as a sign of protest. AIIMS resident doctors will also take out a candle march in the campus in the evening.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan asked states to consider enacting a specific legislation for protecting doctors and medical professionals from any form of violence.

Along with a letter to all chief ministers, he also attached a copy of the Draft Act provided by IMA --the Protection of Medical Service Persons and Medical Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss of Property) Act, 2017.

The move comes after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) launched a four-day nationwide protest from Friday and wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding enactment of a central law to check violence against healthcare workers in hospitals, and making such crimes non-bailable offence.

The apex doctors body has called for a nationwide strike on June 17 with withdrawal of non-essential health services.

Patients bore the brunt of the protest, as they faced a lot of inconvenience and had to wait for long hours at hospital OPDs.

A 28-year-old pregnant woman who visited Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital for follow-up check up claimed that she could not find a doctor in the OPD.

"My ultra-sound is due. I always come here for check-up but today I could not find a doctor to consult with. Now I have to go somewhere else but I have learnt that protests are on at other hospitals too. We patients are facing lot of discomfort because of this strike," she said.

On Friday, a majority of hospitals in Delhi had joined the country-wide agitation in support of the doctors in West Bengal, on a call given by the India Medical Association (IMA) and various resident doctors' associations (RDAs).

However, many hospitals could not join the protest on June 14 as they had not submitted the 24-hour advance notice to the government as required by protocol.

So, they are observing a bandh on Saturday, President of Federation of Residents Doctors' Association (FORDA) Sumedh Sandanshiv said, adding however, ICUs and emergency wings of these hospitals are functioning.

In a statement, FORDA said they would be forced to go on an indefinite strike if the issue in West Bengal is not resolved.

There was a shutdown of out patient departments (OPDs), routine operation theatre services and ward visits, except emergency services at these hospitals of the city, where doctors held their token strike on Saturday.

Junior doctors in West Bengal are on a strike since Tuesday after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. 

A forum of doctors in the national capital issued a statement holding the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal "squarely responsible for letting the situation snowball to the present state through sheer lack of sensitivity for concerns expressed by junior doctors".

It appealed to the resident doctors to include the healthcare issues concerning the common people in their struggle and asked the TMC government to "stop politicising on the issue and address the demands raised by doctors in the earnest".

Scores of doctors in Delhi had held demonstrations on Friday, with many attending to patients in emergency wards wearing bandages on forehead or helmets, marching and raising slogans.                                                                                             [Agencies]
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Hello Jammu News at 6:45:00 PM 0



Kolkata, Jun 14 : Agitating doctors Friday demanded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unconditional apology and set six conditions for the state government to withdraw their four-day-long stir that disrupted healthcare services across West Bengal.

"We want unconditional apology of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the manner in which she had addressed us at the SSKM Hospital yesterday. She should not have said what she had," a spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors, Dr Arindam Dutta, said.

While visiting the SSKM Hospital on Thursday, Banerjee had contended that "outsiders" had entered medical colleges to create disturbances and the agitation was a conspiracy by the CPI(M) and the BJP.

Listing the six conditions, the agitators said the chief minister will have to visit the injured doctors at the hospital and her office should release a statement condemning the attack on them.

"We also want immediate intervention of the chief minister. Documentary evidence of judicial enquiry against the inactivity of the police to provide protection to the doctors at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital on Monday night should also be provided," he said.

Two junior doctors were assaulted on Monday night by family members of a patient who died in the NRS Hospital.

"We demand documentary evidence and details of action taken against those who had attacked us," Dutta said.

They also demanded unconditional withdrawal of all "false cases and charges" which were imposed on junior doctors and medical students across West Bengal in the wake of their strike.

They also stressed on their demand for improvement of infrastructure in all health facilities as well as posting of armed police personnel there.                             [Agencies]
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Hello Jammu News at 5:40:00 PM 0



New Delhi, Jun 13 :  Several resident doctors at the AIIMS here worked with bandages on their heads in a symbolic protest and have decided to boycott work on Friday in solidarity with the doctors protesting against an attack on their colleagues in West Bengal.

Condemning the violence in West Bengal, the AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) has also urged the RDAs across the country to join the token strike.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the AIIMS RDA said the ongoing and worsening of violence against medical doctors in West Bengal is worrisome and disheartening.

"There is a complete breakdown of law and order, with reports of mobs attacking doctor hostels with weapons. The government has failed to provide protection and justice to doctors," the statement read.

"AIIMS RDA condemns this in words and in spirit. Residents across the country are deeply hurt by these turn of events. Keeping in view of our commitment towards safe and non-violent working environment for residents, AIIMS RDA stands in support of our colleagues in West Bengal and has decided to hold protest on June 13 which would be followed by one day strike of work on June 14 which include OPD, routine and ward services except for emergency services," it said.

They urged the West Bengal chief minister to intervene in the matter and address the security concerns so that residents can continue serving patients.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Wednesday directed the members of all its state branches to stage protests and wear black badges on Friday.

In a communique to all its state presidents and secretaries, the IMA has asked them to organise demonstrations in front of the district collectors' offices from 10 am to 12 noon on Friday and hand over a memorandum addressed to the prime minister to the collectors in every district.

The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) has also urged its members to observe a "Black Day" on Thursday against the brutal attack.

Simultaneously, all the local branches and individual members of the IMA will send an appeal to the prime minister and the Union home minister, demanding a central Act on violence against doctors and hospitals.

The IMA has also urged its state branches to communicate the information to the government doctors' organisations of the states, request for their support and issue a press statement to this effect.

"The gruesome incident in NRS Medical College, Kolkata, is of barbaric nature. IMA condemns the violence perpetrated on a young doctor. The entire medical fraternity expresses solidarity with the resident doctors who are on strike. The IMA headquarters hereby declares All India Protest Day on Friday," an IMA statement said.

The assault on the junior doctors following the death of a patient at the state-run NRS Medical College in Kolkata on Monday night left an intern seriously injured and the strike, which was initiated there, spread to medical institutions in the districts.

Emergency wards, outdoor facilities and pathological units of many state-run medical colleges and hospitals and a number of private medical facilities in West Bengal have remained closed over the past two days in the wake of the protest.                                                 [Agencies]
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Hello Jammu News at 7:06:00 PM 0

London, Aug 24: An Indian-origin pathologist has been accused of botching up some post-mortems at a UK hospital and is under police investigation to establish if any criminal charges need to be brought against him.

Khalid Ahmed, who worked as a consultant histopathologist at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Manchester, carried out an undisclosed number of post-mortem tests for the north Manchester coroner's office.

An investigation revealed that he repeatedly recorded the wrong cause of death for patients, misidentified organs and potentially mixed up bodies, The Daily Telegraph reported.

In May last year, the senior coroner at the north Manchester coroner's office raised concerns about Ahmed's examinations and a recent review found "significant concerns" with his "inadequate" reports.

Professor Simon Kim Suvarna, a consultant histopathologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, carried out the review into Ahmed, who qualified as a medic in Bangaluru in 1989, and found some reports to have an "incorrect" cause of death given.

Suvarna is also reported to have noted that Ahmed's tests "do not even meet the standards that are expected for pathology students to pass the autopsy component of the final exam", the newspaper reported.

A subsequent police referral was made by the coroner and that the police investigation is still underway.

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said: "GMP is assessing what, if any, criminal offences may have been committed in relation to findings presented to the coroner."

Ahmed joined Pennine Acute NHS Trust in January 2007, but no longer works there.

In a statement, the trust said after they were told of the coroner's concerns, an "in-depth internal review" into Ahmed's practice was carried out, which concluded in February this year.

The trust added that a "thorough and extensive investigation" of Ahmed's work for the UK's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) work "provided assurance" his practice was "within the range of a reasonable pathologist".

The UK's General Medical Council said he is still licensed to practise as a histopathologist. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 7:40:00 PM 0

People from Banihal, Tral, Mulnag, Padshahi Bagh also meet Mehbooba; CM assures appropriate action on their demands
SRINAGAR, JUNE 15: Numerous deputations from different walks of life called on the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti here today. They brought their difficulties into her notice and sought their redressal.
A deputation of residents of Tral town demanded pacing up of works at the Khanqah i Faiz Panah of Hazrat Ameer i Kabir(R. A.) and putting Nagberan, Gufkral and Nagbal areas on the tourism map of the valley. They also demanded setting up of a medicinal plant institute and girls college in the town. 
A deputation of employees of Public sector undertakings sought formulation of a comprehensive policy for the revival or merger of PSUs in the State. They also demanded adoption of a uniform policy in terms of welfare measures, wages and regularisation among the employees of all PSUs. Another deputation of the employees of SRTC sought adequate financial package to the corporation for buying new vehicles. They also demanded clearance of dues of the corporation by various Departments and agencies.
A deputation of KAS officers sought removal of stagnation in promotions for the members of the service. A deputation of Graduate engineers also sought better cadre management of their service. Another deputation of lecturers sought parity in their pay scales with other services.
A deputation from Aishmuqam sought augmentation of health facilities in the area besides starting work on the proposed degree college there.
Deputation of people from Padshahi Bagh, Natipora demanded installation of more dewatering pumps in the area to drain out excess water during rains. They also sought upgradation of the local filtration plant. Another deputation of the people from Bemina demanded desilting of the drains in their area, setting up of a fire station and pacing up of work on the Children's hospital.
Interacting with a deputation of officers of Cultural Academy, the Chief Minister appreciated the documentation of culture and heritage through its various journals. 
Talking to a deputation of traders, Mehbooba Mufti said her Government has started a process of wider consultations to reach a consensus on GST implementation in the State. She said the interests of every section, importantly traders and business community, would be kept in mind before arriving at a decision in this regard.
Deputation of labour workers sought strict execution of various welfare schemes for labour class in the State by Buildings & Construction Workers Board.  
A deputation of residents of migrant colony, Sheikhpora demanded streamlining the allotment of residential quarters and adequate sanitation in their colony. Another deputation from Takia Behram Shah sought widening of Poshwara road and early completion of the bridge. A deputation of wood suppliers union demanded release of pending flood relief in their favour.
Deputations from Neel, Banihal and Mulnag, Harwan also met the Chief Minister and sought upgradation of roads in their areas and augmentation of health, ration and drinking water facilities.
Several other deputations of ISM doctors, faculty members of SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, daily wagers of JK Bank, non-teaching staff of colleges, employees of Revenue Department, members of Water Sports Association, shopkeepers of Dr. Ali Jan Plaza, litho newspaper owners and residents of Hazratbal also met the Chief Minister and apprised her of their demands and difficulties.

The Chief Minister assured them that appropriate action would be initiated on their demands by the Government.
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