Click to play videoBhopal: Doctors in Bhopal are not ready to accept anything less than a complete rollback of the quota policy and hence will maintain the momentum of protests.
And caught in this web are patients like 22-year-old Hari Bai, who was referred to a government hospital.
Hari Bai was bitten by a stray dog at Sagar in Madhya Pradesh. Doctors at Sagar Hospital referred her to Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Bhopal. Hari Bai traveled more than 200 km to reach Bhopal but she was denied admission.
"What can I say, none of the doctors are listening. I came to the Capital, Bhopal from Surat, but the doctors do not care," says a distraught Hari Bai's husband.
Though there is a parallel OPD running at Gandhi Medical College, no new patients are being admitted. The understaffed hospital depends heavily on the junior doctors -- who are on strike -- for their day to day function.
"The main motive is to make the government do something against the reservation which they have proposed. We are not trying to trouble the patients in any way. We are running a parallel OPD and trying our best that the patients do not face any problem," says Ravi, a junior doctor at Gandhi Medical College.
With patients being denied admission to hospitals, and their suffering increasing every day, it's unlikely that the doctors would be able to keep the public on their side for long.
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