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Gandhi docs strike over lifts
The inaction on the part of the management to repair lifts that have been defunct for over a month led to serious trouble at Gandhi Hospital on Friday resulting in postponement of about 30 surgeries. Besides the lifts issue, the doctors expressed their unhappiness about the work chart.
Hyderabad: The inaction on the part of the management to repair lifts that have been defunct for over a month led to serious trouble at Gandhi Hospital on Friday resulting in postponement of about 30 surgeries. Besides the lifts issue, the doctors expressed their unhappiness about the work chart.
The doctors belonging to Telangana Government Doctors’ Association (TGDA) raised slogans in protest against the management for not taking up the repairs. "In all, there are nearly 18 lifts and only one lift was functioning for patients, doctors and visitors. On Friday, even that one lift also stopped working.
On several occasions we complained to authorities to take up repairs but nobody has acted on the complaints. The doctors have been given job chart saying that they should work for eight hours but it does not mention the lunch hour time and the duration of lunch time," a protesting doctor said.
The agitated doctors said that even during the time of swine flu scare, doctors, healthcare workers, visitors and patients shared the same lift. “It is time the authorities take immediate steps and repair the lifts," a TGDA member said. Doctors refused to relent even after Hospital Superintendent Dr Dhairyavan gave them an assurance in writing that he would ensure proper functioning of lifts in the hospital at the earliest and that the other issues would also be soon resolved.
Demanding that the Principal Secretary to the Government of Telangana should give them a time frame by when the lifts would become functional, the doctors sat on dharna in the office of the superintendent. The doctors finally relented only after Principal Secretary of Health and Medical, Suresh Chanda, sent an e-mail assuring that the government would resolve the issue within two weeks.
Dr Dhairyavan informed The Hans India that the hospital administration had called for tenders to install five lifts along with support staff for a period of five years. But no bidder had come forward. The hospital administration then amended the tender norms following and shortlisted one bidder. Now efforts are on to see that the lifts were installed soon, Dr Dhairyavan said. The remaining lifts would also be repaired within two weeks. Meanwhile, Director of Medical Education (DME) Dr Putta Srinivas directed the Superintendent to give half-an-hour lunch break between 1 pm and 2pm every day
