“We are fighting the government for a better healthcare environment for the public of this country.”

What are our demands?

1) Better healthcare infrastructure for the people of this country.

2) Safe working environment where doctors can give their full attention to the patient without fearing assault.

3) Availability of all necessary medicines at all times - at times we cannot save a patient due to lack of medicines, and the public outrage is directed at doctors.

4) Doctor should be able to give more time to the patients - this is possible only if number of doctors is increased with respect to the number of patients Government should do this.

5) More ventilators in all hospitals - sometimes the patient dies due to unavailability of ventilators. And the public blames doctors. Not knowing that its the govenrment’s fault.

6) The public of this country has right to be treated by doctors who are well rested and with fresh mind - but this is not possible if there are less doctors and they are made to work 48 to 96 hr at a stretch without sleep and sometimes without food. Duty hours of doctors should be fixed at 8 hrs per day and 48 hr per week. 

7) Patient should be given adequate time in the OPDs - Maximum Number of patients that can be seen by a doctor in OPD in one day should be fixed. If a doctor at govt hospital treats 200 patients in 8 hours without single break, even then he cannot give more than 2-3 minute per patient. 

8) Doctors should spend their time in treating patients rather than collect samples, transport papers from one part of hospital to other. There should be adequate ward boys for that. This way doctors could give more time to patients.

9) Restricting number of relatives who come to meet patients - Every relative who enters, brings with him germs. Number of complications increase due to this. 

10) Punish all who assault doctors - with every assault, morale of doctors decreases. We want motivated and empathetic doctors to treat the patients of this country. Assaulters must be punished. 

11) Public has the right to be treated by real doctors - It is the duty of the government to clamp down on quacks. When the quacks will decrease, number of cases who reach a hospital late in critical condition will decrease.

12) Rampant sale of antibiotics at pharmacies should stop -  It is the duty of govt to ensure that antibiotics are not sold without prescriptions. When antibiotics are not misused, antibiotic resistance will not increase, infections can be treated and deaths due to sepsis decrease. 

13) Increase Healthcare Spending

13) Justice for attack on doctors at NRSMCH

Thus, if there will be better healthcare, assaults will automatically come down.

Hence the doctors are fighting the administration and government to provide better healthcare to people of this country.

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