By IANS
Ranchi : Six doctors at the Sadar Hospital here were booked for disturbing work in the hospital following a directive by Jharkhand Health Minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi.
About 600 contractual doctors, under the banner of the Jharkhand Contractual Doctors Associations (JCDA), have been on strike for the past 11 days demanding regularisation of their services. Tuesday, they disrupted the medical work and closed the emergency and OPD services in government hospitals in a bid to intensify their agitation.
Irked by the doctors’ activities, the health minister directed Shayam Sundar Singh, civil surgeon of Sadar Hospital of Ranchi, to lodge FIR (First Information Report) against the striking doctors.
In line with the directive, Singh lodged an FIR at the Lower Bazar police station here against six doctors, including Bimlesh Kumar Singh, president of JCDA.
“The striking doctors’ move to disrupt the medical services is like disrupting government work. This is not the way to get a demand fulfilled. Who will be responsible for death of the patients,” the health minister said.
Meanwhile, the agitating doctors said they would challenge the minister’s decision in the court.
“Our strike will continue. And we will challenge the government’s move of lodging FIR against us in court” said the JCDA president.
The JCDA had earlier announced the doctors would tender mass resignations Dec 17 if their demands are not be fulfilled by then.