Imphal, November 12 2009: The mass casual leave stir being undertaken by JN Hospital doctors has severely impaired the functioning of JN Hospital.

The JN hospital doctors launched the mass casual leave agitation since November 10 in protest against the vast disparity between their salaries and the pay-scale entitled to JNIMS doctors.

As this reporter visited JN Hospital today, patient care service given to patients at the hospital was found severely compromised as compared to earlier days before the commencement of the mass casual leave stir.

Interaction with in-patients undergoing treatment in different wards revealed the sudden fall in patient care service.

Some patients have even left their wards.

According to the JN Hospital Medical Superintendent, there are 80 doctors in JN Hospital while JNIMS has 60 doctors.

He said that JNIMS doctors have been providing necessary medical service after JN Hospital doctors have launch mass casual leave stir.

He, however, conceded that quality service given to in-patients staying in different wards have been compromised.

The number of OPD patients registered on Monday was 567 .

This was reduced to 350 on Tuesday when doctors launched mass casual leave stir. Sources said that number of OPD patients have been dramatically reduced today.

Generally, seven to nine patients undergo surgical operations in JN Hospital daily.

But after the doctors' agitation has been launched, only one or two operations are performed in a day.

As against the normal delivery rate of five/six children in a day, only one to two babies are delivered in the hospital these days.

Out of 60 doctors recruited for JNIMS, maximum number of doctors belong to non-clinical subjects such as Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry.

Doctors appointed under non-clinical subjects generally do not diagnose or treat patients, conveyed the source.

As such, the remaining doctors are not in a position to deliver quality service to patients, added the source.

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