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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 22 2010:
In protest against the harsh words used by a team of police men against doctors on duty at Casualty Ward of RIMS, the same ward was shut from around 11 last night till 8 pm today.
The police team brought a patient to RIMS at around 10 pm yesterday.
A six year child named Kh Mangi of Khabeisoi was brought to RIMS by some police men including one in civilian fatigue with a complaint that a match-stick has got stuck inside the ear of the child.
Besides using strong words against the doctors (post-graduate students) on duty at the Casualty Ward, the police team insisted on attending to the child before other patients.
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This resulted in a dispute between the doctors and the police team.
Soon after, the Casualty Ward was closed.
On leaning about the closure of Casualty Ward, RIMS Director L Fimate, the Medical Superintendent in-charge, Casualty CMO and post-graduate doctors held a meeting in the A-block of RIMS.
During the meeting, the doctors proposed shifting the registration counter outside the Casualty Ward.
They also demanded increasing the number of security personnel being deployed in RIMS.
Following assurance from the RIMS Director to fulfil the doctors' demand at the maximum level, the Casualty Ward was re-opened from 8 pm today.
On the other hand, many patients and their parties who came to RIMS Casualty Ward for treatment were greatly annoyed when they found the ward shut.
They also faced many inconveniences.
Decrying such methods of protest, one patient asserted that doctors need to shed such tendency of suspending their service for trivial matters.
He pointed out that people bringing patients to hospitals are always in tension.
It is essential for doctors to ease the tension of patient parties.
But if doctors turn on patient parties with anger, more incidents of conflicts and skirmishes between doctors and patient parties would follow, he added.
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