By IANS,
Lucknow : Services in all state-run hospitals across Uttar Pradesh will remain suspended for two hours from Monday as a mark of the doctors’ protest against the lack of any progress in the sensational murder of Lucknow chief medical officer B.P. Singh last week.
“Doctors in all government hospitals across the state will observe a two hour strike with effect from Monday,” Provincial Medical Service (PMS) association president D.R.Singh told media persons here Sunday evening.
B.P. Singh was gunned down as he left his for routine morning walk in the posh Gomati Nagar area here April 2.
The state doctors, who had instantly proceeded on a flash strike, were eventually convinced to suspend their agitation on the assurance that the culprits would be soon brought to book.
However, with police having failed to make any headway into the case sop far, the PMS association has not only resolved to renew their protest but also once again revert to the demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe.
“We have waiting for a full week and I fail to understand why police had not been able to zero in on the murderers. If the state’s investigation agencies were unable to work out the case, then there is all the more reason to hand over the case to CBI,” D.R. Singh said
B.P. Singh was the second incumbent on this key position to be gunned down within a span of six months in the state capital. In an almost identical case, the then Lucknow CMO (family welfare) Vinod Arya was also shot by masked motor-cyclists, just as he stepped out of his home in October 2010.
Award of huge contracts for supply of goods and equipment under the centrally funded National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and large scale financial bungling were officially stated to be the cause behind both the murders.