Click to play videoJaipur: The public healthcare crisis in Rajasthan on Friday worsened after 5000 striking doctors decided to put in the resignations crippling the system in the state.
The resignations came after over 200 striking doctors were arrested by the Rajasthan government.
At least 10 patients have lost their lives in Rajasthan due to lack of timely treatment so far.
The doctors have gone on strike demanding pay parity with those at the Centre. In response to the strike, the state government suspended nine doctors and arrested over 200 under Rajasthan Essential Services Act.
However, it is the patients that are turning out to be the worst sufferer in the deadlock.
One Lakhan Singh has been waiting to show his 55-year-old mother, a kidney patient, to the doctors at Jaipur's SMS hospital since Thursday night, but no one has come to examine her yet.
However, their ordeal began three days ago in Bharatpur. Since there was no doctor at the government hospital there either, Lakhan had to take his mother to a private hospital where he spent Rs 28,000. His money finished and now he has nowhere to go.
In another case, in the Zenana hospital at Jaipur's Chandpole, one Jameela was inconsolable. She and her brother ran from pillar to post to get doctors to attend to her pregnant sister Nasroon Bano during her delivery. But they lost Nasroon just after she gave birth. Her brother now says the absence of doctors is to be blamed squarely for her death.
Empty wards, queuing up patients, mounting pressure on private hospitals and mourning families of those who've lost lives haven't been able to get the doctors demanding parity in pays with doctors at the Centre to call off their strike.
And neither has the nine suspensions of doctors and over 200 arrests by the government helped.
While the government has roped in retired doctors, doctors from the army, BSF and the railways, it hasn't been enough. Every passing hour the troubles are rising for the increasingly desperate patients.
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