Doctors’ stir: Rajasthan High Court seeks relief for deaths
During the recent protest of in-service doctors, blame game had reached its nadir with the health department and doctors blaming each other pathetic condition of the patients and distruption in healthcare. And now there’s bad news for them… Rajasthan High Court has taken cognizance of the grave matter.
Issuing interim order in a related case, a high court bench has ordered the state government to compensate the kin of those to have died due to protest impact and asked the same amount to be recovered from the doctors to have remain on strike. Around 30 deaths were reported and the court has asked the A-G to file an affidavit by November 27 related to compensation compliance procedure.
The bench of Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma strongly observed that, “the strike is in no manner justified and may be the demands of the agitating doctors would have been accepted by the state regarding their pay hike etc. It cannot purge the doctors of their responsibility and the death of 30 innocent people”.
The observation of the bench came on a statement made by Health minister Kali Charan Saraf where he was quoted to have claimed 30 deaths during strike and Dr. Ajay Choudhary president …read more