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Consumers’ Reaction To Medics’ Strike
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 26, 2010: a consumers’ front has threatened to cut off the water and power supplies to the residences of the doctors that have shut down all sorts of services at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) since March 14, 2010 demanding ‘the cancellation of graduate students’ examinations and resignation of the dean charging him with leaking out the question papers for money’ if they don’t return to their regular work, and opened the teaching hospital unlocking it on March 25, 2010. President of the Consumers’ Front Jyoti Bania has accused the medics of engaging in the politics rather than providing sincere services to the people, and of shutting down the state-run hospital for opening their private clinics.
However, President of the Nepal Medics’ Association Dr. Kedar Narsingh KC has refuted Mr. Bania counter charging him with the creation of an unsafe environment for the medics. Mr. KC has also said that the problem at the state-run teaching hospital would have been resolved if the Prime Minister has sincerely acted on it and the Vice-chancellor of the Tribhuvan University has positively interfered in the Dean’s office and acted on the problem of the medics.
People seeking medical services at the TUTH have the opinions of ‘the medics working at the hospitals have the option to quit the TUTH and move to elsewhere rather than shutting down the medical services to the sick people’. The Government of Prime Minister Madhav Nepal has been just watching the medics creating such chaos at the TUTH without taking any actions against the medics or the dean for the problem that has cropped up. It indicates that the unelected Prime Minister is not accountable to the people.
