BIRDEM slides into chaos
AS doctors are on an indefinite strike, a large number of patients at the BIRDEM hospital have been going through an unprecedented ordeal since Tuesday. Reportedly, some angry relatives of a deceased patient had allegedly assaulted on-duty doctors, precipitating the present crisis. Though the dead patient's daughter denied the allegation of assault at a press conference, the situation at the hospital seems to be aggravating rather than improving.
The question is why are the doctors causing hundreds of patients to suffer in consequence of an untoward incident, the actual nature of which is yet to be probed and made clear? And if really some of their colleagues were manhandled by outsiders, what has that to do with the patients who are already at the hospital or those coming to it to receive treatment? It simply defies common sense and logic.
Since there is a world of difference between the calling of a doctor and that of any other professional, people's expectation from them is also different. Their expression of fraternity should desirably be different from people in various other professions. So, their calling of strike at the expense of normal functioning of the hospital does hardly go with the sacred Hippocratic Oath they are bound by.
The authorities should go into the heart of the matter and unravel the truth. The real offender, whoever that may be, must be made to face justice. Besides, if there is any loophole in the doctor-patient relationship that too must be plugged.
But until that time, the doctors should call off their strike and spare the patients further suffering.
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