Bangalore: Doctors' strike takes toll on patients - Two dead


Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (RJP)

Bangalore, Oct 29: The state-wide strike by government doctors urging fulfilment of various demands has claimed the lives of two persons, including a child. The two died due to non-availability of medical services.

Ramya (10), daughter of coolie workers Ranganath and Mangalamma of Magadi, died because of high fever. Ramya, who was taken to two government hospitals in Gudemaranahalli and Solur, was not treated there because of the ongoing strike. When she was ultimately taken to a private hospital, she breathed her last.

Another person who died was from Sakleshpur. The person had a heart attack and could not be treated due to the strike.

Minister for health and family welfare U T Khadar said that if the deaths were indeed caused due to the ongoing strike, the doctors responsible would be taken to task and strict action initiated against them. "We do not need such doctors," he lashed out.

The strike began on Monday October 27, with over a thousand doctors submitting their resignations. Meanwhile, several organizations protested in front of government hospitals in Hassan, Mysore, Chitradurga and others places against the mass resignations. Patients were put to much incovenience due to the strike.

Chief minister Siddaramaiah is likely to hold talks with the agitating doctors on Wednesday October 29 afternoon to find a solution to their demands.

 

  

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  • Joe D'Souza, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Mr SK,Mangalore said it correctly. Health Minister is always ready to blame others for His own fault. We the residents of Kadri Pumpwell area suffer from filth and Stinking drain water along with Huge Rodents,Poisonous Snakes,Garbage, and Mosquitoes from Property Belongs to U T family. MCC has given notice since 4 months and still no result.
    These Doctors were requesting the needs from long time. And no one cares from Parliment House. Left all these problem and went to South Africa while Doctors were still working.
    Doctors spent Lakhs to become MBBS and MD. They did not get Elected with Public Swindled Money. Government has money to send Criminals to study tours but no money for benefits to Doctors.
    People blame Doctors for the problems but praise UT. Poor Doctors get up from sleep and run for duty while Elected official is Sleeping. They drive to Hospital in middle of the night on run down road without care for their own safety whilt Minister goes with Escort Vehicles in High End Car for raid.
    I wish, everything will be fine for Doctors. Doctors also have right to fight for their benefit like others do. They cannot give pay rise for themselves like Ministers do for themselves. Good Luck Doctors,fight it out with limit and Courage. God will bless your efforts for Justice. You have done your share to Society. Did not rob to get education.

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  • Ummar , Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Jadooo Of Modi Government...

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  • Rita, Germany

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    sad sad.Hope These doctors can sleep well after Hearing that two People died because of their strike.where is their human Feeling gone?Astreike or not,you see a Person is dieing,and you are just Close eyes and say I am on strike.Lord ,would they do if their relative came in that state´?we dont Need such doctors ,who concentrate on only Money and stubberness,dont treat a Person who is dieing.Heartfelt sympathy to the Family members.was there really no emergency Team?Next time doctors ,please dont take Money because you were in strike.

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  • makeMyDay, makeMyDay

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Kader bhi Ebola ge ayurveda mard naduna badal English medicine korpunkulen onchur thule

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  • Jessy , uae

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    According to me the doctors who are involved in the strike should be left permanently left on the road to do the strike.They are not fit for wearing the white uniform.If you think your job is not noble why to be in that.with your strike you are not spoiling a machine but somebody's child,the joy of their life,a future doctor could be!!!!I wish you doctors when your children fall sick whole hospitals should be on strike.Shame on these psuedo doctors.There is blood in your hands from these two patients and there are tears on your head.

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  • peter, Brahmavar

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    This is also another type of rape. Doctors using & raping patients for fulfilling their needs. Suspend license for 5 years for doctors who involved in strike.

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  • joe Gonsalves, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Services of doctors should be classified as ESSENTIAL SERVICES and there should be an ordinance debarring doctors from going on strike.

    The callousness on the part of the doctors have claimed two lives - perhaps more.

    Hope Government takes action against the striking doctors.

    Joe Gonsalve

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  • Achhu, Mlore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    There were many similar death without doctors strike but not came in media. Now at least started publishing in media. so credit goes to Mr. Khadar

    Thanks Mr. UT Khadar.

    We need leader like Mr. Khader and Mr. Modi.

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  • S N Bangs, Thannirubhavi

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    First time Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai
    got more agrees than Disagree

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  • Sachidanand Shetty, Mundkur/Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    That's just for a moment only....look at the second comment....same as usual.....I think you might be knowing the wording for a person who speaks good once in a while

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  • Sachidanand Shetty, Mundkur/Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Khadar Bhai….pls wake up….else situation goes out of control……and you may have to face the wrath of people….. Now a day people don’t waste time to blame a person even if he/she did lots of good work previously!!!!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    let Modi promise some FAKE black money to these DOCTORS ....

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  • Sachidanand Shetty, Mundkur/Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    We don’t’ need advice from Toilet goers!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    DO YOU GO ON YOUR TERRACE FOR ...

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  • Sandesh Shetty, Bangalore/Kudla

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai we have your great state govt. So why do you need modi here.

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  • jai hind, mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    everyone knew that u hate a particular community so enough stop it.

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  • jai hind, mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    please be careful while commenting here some communal chaddi people are taking benefit taking the matter to communal way, so please don care omn the useless fellows like raj..dinesh poojari.. and so snd so... here its is both doctors and the govts are responsible for this....

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  • SK, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    This Health Minister has least knowledge about health. In his constituency there are 3 important hospitals KS hegde, Yenepoya and Father mullers. But there is no road to go there. God save the patients who travel in that road from Thokkotu to Deralakatte. It is full of potholes and the road is so narrow that ambulances get stuck there and cannot reach the hospital on time. Even doctors cannot reach the hospital on time. There is also so much fith in his constituency. There are plastic thrown across roads, disease generating stagnating water etc... Mr Health minster, please fix it. IF,this is the condition in your own constituency then how will you address the state?
    Reporters from Daiji - Can you please do an article related to the road condition from Thokkotu to Deralakatte which is in such bad condition. There are so many hospitals and colleges there and it is hell to travel there.
    And I pity the people who disagree to this. They are really blind.

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  • scott, UAE

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    So you want him to get the roads repaired, then you want him to arrange the transport, then some restaurants, some malls, some entertainment in the area, when he starts doing this, you will say he is a health minister, he should focus on his department not bother about other task, honestly speaking you guys have become frustrated and confused.

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  • SK, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    He is the health minister because he got elected in this constituency. And I am talking about roads that lead to hospitals where patients and doctors travel. As a health minister cant he make hospitals accessible there with good roads. Don't try to defend the indefensible sitting somewhere in UAE. it shows not only blindless but hollowness in attitude. Grow up man.

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  • Vincy, Bangkok

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    So the roads are bad just after last assembly election?
    He is a minister for health department and you want him to see the road development?

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  • SK, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    It is his own constituency where he got elected. Let him make the hospitals in his area accessible first as a health minister having good roads so that patients can reach there on time. Another one sitting in some other country and commenting without knowing the reality. lol. Please come here and drive in that road and you will know the pain of 100s of patients here who visit those hospitals. Another blind man.God bless you.

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  • Parvez, Mlore/MCT

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Goverenment should have made more alternate arangements and its really shamefull on doctors to simply stop service like this.

    They are equally responsible for this situation.

    And disgustingly we have few people to do politics on this situation as usual.

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Parvez Bhai, gussa thooko! :-D.. if the same news was from central Modi govt or BJP yeddy govt., all replies wld have been different! .. here since it is COngress and Khader, few are emotional and being supportive!.. -)

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  • RM, Udupi

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Doctors, This is wrong. What you will do if tomorrow you OR your family are on this situation!!!

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  • Raj, Bangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Nidderamayya is in a deep sleep...How can you expect positive approach from him. If those patients were minority he will rush to the spot and money and give special support to the families with new bhagya scheme...I had good opinion about our health minister initially looking at his surprise visit to hospitals. But now he proved his education doesnt match to his post in the current govt.

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  • Albert, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Health minster should have enough knowledge about health system, family plaining etc. the current one is totally useless fit enough to become fisheries minster only!
    Dr. Parameshwar, who is a qualified doctor, who knows about health and family planning etc. should be made as CM instead of Nidrammya and should take care of health ministry also, before many more patients die in our state!

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  • hamraz, mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Please dont fulfill your demands by Causing Problems to Innocents!!

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  • mohan, mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    corruption in indian people is in the Blood,this cannot be solved, corruption in high society and high qualified people is more than the poor and low edgucated people. And in government jobs Most of them are backward society people, their concentration is only on money making, and wasting in unwanted things

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    The FEKU Health Minister on Monday said he will start call center to provide medical facility. Where is call center?

    He should own responsibility for death of 2 and resign on moral grounds. Let him be with Ullal miscreants and it is the best place for him.

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  • Hubert D'souza, Mangalore Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    GOVERNMENT MUST TAKE STRICT ACTION ON DOCTORS THOSE WORKING IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS.THEY MUST NOT WORK IN PRIVATE HOSPITALS OR THEIR PRIVATE CLINIC DURING DUTY HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    HEALTH MINISTER is good only at rescuing rapists, journalist attackers, miscreants, cattle traffickers.

    He is a big FEKU MAHARAJA. All these days he fooled people by visiting hospitals and doing nothing.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    When govt can give 25 lac Rs for cattle traficker and 50000 Rs each for Shaadi Bhagya beneficiaries, why can't they give for doctors?

    As I said yesterday if the docrors were KHAN by majority, problems would have been solved.

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  • S.M. Nawaz Kukkikatte, Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014


    as per "Satyameva Jayathe" episode
    some Doctors run behind the money instead of take responsibility,
    Doctor service also called "Humanity service" were they benefit not only money also prayer of patient and their family.

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    You are talking as if Aamir khan is doing "Satymavea Jayate or films for free"! haha... you know how much doctor spends for his seat..? doesnt he have a life, lifestyle...? doesn't govt distribute these seats in various "categories, backwards, reservations, 31b and what not"... let those, who got free seat on their backgorund go and do free service too..


    "yes professional ethics is must.. and so it is for you and me.. dont we waste our productive time here in daiji?'

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  • S.M. Nawaz Kukkikatte, Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014


    am here not talking about seat/lifestyle/ethics or productive
    Whatever Doctors demands they should intentionally give some more time or demanding deadline to Govt.
    it is not like necessarily participating in mass protest and playing with innocents patients life.

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    I agree.. but we dont have ethics like that of JAPAN.. [if japanese want to protest.. if they are in manufacturing or assembly line of a car, they will only produce, one side door, where in their work wont be stopped, but the output of total car goes down, cos they are not able to assemble the full car, due to lack of inventory]...

    Doctors are unlike that .. just imagine, if anasthetic goes on strike and rest of the doctors are available, can the patient be operated..? NO..... hence, its governments duty to foresee these... and pacify them in time, so as to avoid, issue being snowballed into a bigger tragedy...! doctors r just like u and Me, who r workers and who have needs too...

    Import the doctors from neighbouring states, private organisations, if need be.. if the strike goes on..! there is a solution for everything!

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  • Pius , Belman/Dubai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Doctors are not magicians. Many a times they prescribe medicines but patients are too poor to afford them. also the medicines assigned to the government hospitals are sold by the crooked government officials thereby the sick people are deprived of lifesaving drugs.
    The hospital equipment is too old and in bad shape.
    Health facility has to improve first and then blame the doctors.
    The facilities provided for UAE nationals in Dubai Government hospitals are a living example, what good governance can provide for its citizens.

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  • Norbert Menezes, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Very simple appoint new doctors.Give chance to our young doctors and say goodbye to old.....(but don't blame our health minister.whatever he is doing his best.)

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Tell this to speaker Kagodu thimmappa.. why he pulled him? for time pass?
    what is health ministers duty..? sit with few porkis, in mangalore press club for conferences? and defend airport threat accused?

    praise when he is doing good and have guts to rubbish it when he is not doing well... here two lives r lost cos he didnt intervene in time...! in democracy everybody has right to protest/strike.. doctors r doing just that.. its government's duty to make alternate arrangement of doctors or shifting patients to right hospitals and engaging with stirking doctors... no rocket science! .. havent we gone after Modi for years, for similar failures?

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  • kaushik, manglore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Thank you Congress

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  • Nagendra, Bangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    It is unfortunate to see 2 people dead due to strike. People commenting against doctors should also try to understand what for they are fighting and the working conditions of some of these doctors. Majority of the doctors working in rural areas are prone to become sick while treating the patients as there are no protecting things and quality products supplied by government. Check the conditions of majority of the government hospitals and you may see the real problem. people just thrashes these doctors when some of the near people dies in hospital but they never try to understand the incapability of these doctors without proper instruments or devices for health care in government hospitals. Governments has crores of rupees to spend on MP's health care and their operations but doesnt even have lakhs to spend on buying instruments for these government hospitals. Before commenting just as to why all these politicians who talks against these doctors don't go to a government hospital for a treatment and goes only to private hospitals? do you think is it because of good doctors in private hospitals? no, majority of these government doctors works as consultants for these private hospitals. They visit these private hospitals because of sophisticated equipment which is not arranged by government in government hospitals. Even the instruments what we see in these hospitals are donated by some one.

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  • Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Where is usless health minister? He should resign immediately.

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    I wish he gives 10lakhs each to the dead/victim... :)

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  • RK YEKKUR, MANGALORE

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    ಡಾಕ್ಟರ್ ವೃತ್ತಿಗೆ ಅವಮಾನ, ಅವರಿಗೆ ಜನರ ಸೇವೆಗಿ೦ತ ದುಡ್ಡೇ ದೊಡ್ಡದು........ಛೀ ಛೀ...... shame .....

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  • Lingappa, Kuppepadavu/Amsterdam

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    He is advocating for someone from his vote bank who is stuck in the Airport customs carrying a banned substance. What can you expect from such an individual from the Khangress? Perhaps the patients here do not belong to his 'vote bank'.

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  • Balaji, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Karnataka Government is behind its Ahinda agenda and not serious on the real issues. That is why all these things are happening.

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  • vellano1, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    where is KHADER? Sleeping or Bangkok tour?

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  • Lingappa, Kuppepadavu/Amsterdam

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    He was last seen at the Mlore Airport trying to play lawyer for a passenger who was caught smuggling Gold hiding in his rextum.

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  • Af, mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Given resignation ok fine, but 1 month working compulsory as per agreement, those who not attended duty they must be booked under murder case.
    Still there are some doctors in society doing their service to public free, hats off to them, and these selfish doctors DHIKARRA.

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  • S N Bangs, Thannirubhavi

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Selfish Murderers , not Doctors. Govt spent peoples money on their education and they are killing people by striking.shame

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, bahrain

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    Hell with these selfish Doctors.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    I wonder if our doctors are GENUINELY EDUCATED ...

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  • Aubb, Kuwait

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    @Jossy,

    The answer is ""NO"".
    These doctors can only proudly talk about their paper certificates which they obtain by hook or by crook, and are only interested in making a quick buck out of their govt. jobs.

    These doctors are qualified maybe, but not educated enough for sure.

    Thanks to all the honest medical professionals at this moment in time.

    Govt. must not succumb to these strikes and bandhs, but find a quick and permanent solution for the benefit of the suffering public.

    Jai Hind.

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  • vinay, mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    First ask your Sleeping DONKEY Congi Govt to meet Doctor's Demand such as providing enough medicines/assistants etc. Then ask about Doctor's qualification. By the by what is your qualification, only FEKUGIRI?

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  • Albert, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 29 2014

    What about Health minister?? was he qualified to confirm patient as dead by checking 'pulse'??

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