Move to bring in doctors from PHCs to tackle crisis 

Crisis in city hospitals; casualty department is worst-affected Junior
doctors continue agitation; patients suffer

Senior doctors unable to treat all patients who thronged K.R. Hospital
and Cheluvamba Hospital

Authorities planning to issue notices to striking junior doctors to
report to work

Medical services, including emergency, continue to be affected at K.R.
Hospital and Cheluvamba Hospital here, as junior doctors continue
their strike against the reservation for OBCs in institutions of
higher education.

Alarmed by the situation, the authorities are making efforts to bring
in doctors from primary health centres to treat patients at these two
hospitals.

Sources said that the doctors from the primary health centres around
the city and district would be called in to report at K.R. Hospital
and Cheluvamba Hospital to treat patients as the queues grew longer on
Thursday. All medical staff, professors and teachers of Mysore Medical
College have been requested to attend duties at K.R. Hospital and
Cheluvamba Hospital. A few senior doctors who held the fort on
Wednesday and Thursday were unable to treat all the patients who
thronged the hospitals. Sources said a large number of patients arrive
at these two hospitals from rural areas as the treatment was
affordable.

As the junior doctors numbering 130 are on strike since Tuesday, 30
senior doctors struggled to treat the patients at the outpatient
department. The emergency and casualty department remained the
worst-affected. Sources said that several doctors who reported to duty
on Wednesday morning continued to work even on Thursday.

Meanwhile, sources said that the authorities were contemplating
issuing notices to the striking junior doctors to report to work.

Letter campaign

Medical students, who have been striking against the reservation
policy, launched a letter campaign on Thursday in front of K.R.
Hospital on Thursday. In the hand-written letters that they
distributed to the public, the students clarified that they were not
against reservation, but were only demanding rightful place for
meritorious students. They said that vote-bank politics had affected
the Indian society.