Mumbai: Striking doctors return to work
By ANISaturday, January 9, 2010
MUMBAI - Nearly 300 resident doctors and an number of nurses of the Mumbai’s J J hospital, who were on strike have resumed their work on Saturday.
The doctors returned to work after getting an assurance from the management that there will be a meeting with then on Monday.
The J J Hospital staff is demanding security in the hospital premises.
On Friday, two doctors and a nurse were attacked by a mob.
Two resident doctors and a staff nurse had to work overtime to save their own lives at J J Hospital when a mob of 30, including relatives of a patient who had died, descended on medicine ward number 12 and indulged in vandalism.
The staff immediately boycotted the work.
The mob accused the two doctors of medical negligence following the death of patient, Shahid Rehman.
Mumbai’s JJ hospital is the largest referral hospital in Maharashtra. (ANI)
