Editorial
No end to patients' woes
Fighting in hospital is shameful
GIVEN the ferocity with which contending groups fought at Mitford hospital last night, one could easily have mistaken it for a face-off between rival political parties during a hartal. This sort of commotion at a hospital and that too between professionals who are all members of the medical fraternity is hardly acceptable behaviour. We find it deplorable that hot words can lead to scuffles that embroil hospital staff and medical internees. This is not the first time this has happened at a public hospital. In fact such behaviour appears to have become ingrained in some of our hospitals.
The downside to all the commotion with one group of people blaming the other for starting the problem is that ordinary patients, the bulk belonging to the lower income brackets are bereft of receiving much-needed medical attention. Does it matter who said what? Why can't we settle our differences like other people do? Why must it always end up in a clash? Most important of all, how can these people claim to be caregivers if they must resort to violent behaviour every time someone loses his or her temper and a minor issue turns into an explosive situation? The whole episode at Mitford hospital leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Taking advantage of the scuffle, students bunked classes, internee doctors staged protests on college grounds and 3rd and 4th class hospital employees resorted to beating up some students. Such callous and irresponsible behaviour simply is not consistent with the prestige of a medical institution.
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