Sixteen doctors working in Bir Hospital emergency submitted resignation from their positions today. They handed over their resignation to Hospital Director Kedar Century after the hospital management failed to fulfil their demands.

The doctors put in their papers after talks with the hospital administration regarding their demands failed. They have been demanding that the hospital management provide them with personal protective equipment, masks, gloves and other protective items. They have also sought COVID-19 allowance.

Talking to THT on condition of anonymity, one of the doctors who also resigned today, said, “The hospital has run out of PPE, sanitisers, gloves and masks. Since COVID and non-COVID patients are kept in the emergency unit, we need protective gear for ours, as well as patients’ safety. We have been purchasing the requisite items on our own. We are risking our lives, but we have not been provided allowance for treatment of coronavirus patients.”

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