Doctor shot dead for referring a child for a higher centre! At least our associations wake up now. The Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS), an association of government doctors of Uttarakhand has declared that all government hospitals across the state will remain shut on Thursday, only emergency and post-mortem unit will be open. The doctors are infuriated by the killing of a paediatrician while he was on duty in a Jaspur-based Community Health Centre (CHC) on Wednesday.
Doctors have said that they might even shut the emergency services and go on an indefinite strike if the administration fails in nabbing the culprit at the earliest. "Doctors have been calmly working under adverse conditions and challenging terrain of Uttarakhand despite all such compromises, they remain a target of anti-social elements. We will not bear it anymore and go on an indefinite strike if our deceased…
