Imphal, July 19 MNS NNN: The Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) in Imphal has been closed imposing a cease work strike following its doctors and staffs were allegedly threatened by some armed security personnel and a patient party but services to the already admitted patients in the hospital will not affect by the strike.
TheJNIMS /JN Hospital Staff Co-ordination Committee said it unanimously resolved to start a cease work strike of the staffs in the OPD, Emergency Services and Routine OT in protest against threatening of doctors and staffs on duty.
It said some armed security personnel, including a patient party of one Mumtaz, wife of Md Saloudin of Keirao, Imphal East had bullied the doctor and staffs at Ante-natal Ward of Obs. and Gyne Department of the hospital at around 9 pm yesterday.
The decision to call the strike was taken during an emergency meeting of all the doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and all supporting staffs of JN Hospital and JNIMS at the Conference Hall of the Medical Superintendant on Thursday.
At the meeting, with Prof Ksh Chourjit, Department of Pediatrics in the chair, the committee named JNIMS/JN Hospital Staff Co-ordination Committee was formed comprising 17 members on Thursday.
The committee also submitted a charter of demands to the Director, JNIMS and Medical Superintendant of the hospital.
Until the culprits are booked and necessary actions are taken up against them, it has been decided to continue the cease work strike, the charter of demands mentioned. The hospital authority must give an assurance to the employees of the hospital and take remedial measures to avoid occurring of such incident in future.
Security arrangement of all the wards, OPDs and casualty should also be beefed up round the clock, it added.
The casualty and OPD of JNIMS were closed dawn following the threat on MLA to the nurses on duty last night around nine p.m.
Patients who came from far flung areas came to the hospital but returned as they didn’t knew the situation earlier.
A pregnant woman, Mamtaz Begum (26) wife of Salauddin of Keirao was admitted in the hospital on July 14 and he has been staying at antenatal ward of Gynae ward. A nurse on duty was trying to replace a drip of the patient however the husband of the patient asked to discharge however the nurse told that discharge should be given by doctors and not nurses. The MLA with his escorts threatened the nurses with gun and asked to discharge immediately.
To protest the threat of the MLA, a committee, the co-ordinating committee of employees of JNIMS, JN Hospital decided in a meeting to take up cease work strike till the culprit is booked and to post adequate security in the hospital. Interestingly, the patient has changed her name and husband when she was admitted to ward. In the ward register the name of the patient was written as Mamtaz Begum (26) wife of Allauddin of Kshetrigao.
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