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NEW DELHI:   The Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) has terminated the companies of marshals and bouncers from its campus on Tuesday following instructions from Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.  Sources within the ministry mentioned that the transfer got here after Mandaviya expressed displeasure on a go to to the hospital. He even shared in his speeches that the presence of heavy safety preparations intimidated sufferers. 

“They don’t come to fight. They (patients) come for the treatment and doctors should show empathy towards them,” the union minister had mentioned whereas talking at an occasion at Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) earlier this 12 months. The Centre-run hospital’s deputy director V Ok Sharma wrote a letter to the non-public company which was roped in for the safety association.  “Services of marshals/bouncers are temporarily suspended at LHMC and Associated Hospitals,” the letter learn.

According to sources on the union well being ministry, the transfer is prone to be emulated at different Centre-run hospitals.  “RML Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital have also employed the services of private security personnel. Soon they may be instructed to end the contract,” a senior official mentioned. However, the transfer has irked the medical doctors fraternity who are actually involved for his or her safety since incidents of assault by attendants of sufferers are standard at public hospitals. 

Dr Sarda, common secretary, the Resident Doctors Association, LHMC, mentioned the medical doctors weren’t consulted earlier than incorporating the choice and a group of medical doctors will meet the hospital administration to get to the rationale behind the transfer  “We are understaffed and the additional security gives us the confidence to work in a conducive environment. We were not consulted. However, we will try to get the reason behind the move first as the removal of security will concern us all for our security,” he mentioned. 

A number of months in the past, a junior physician from the paediatric division of LHMC was brutally assaulted by attendants of a kid who was introduced useless to the hospital. The attendants didn’t settle for the declaration of demise by the physician on responsibility and pressurised him to confess the kid. When refused, the physician was severely crushed.

In different hospitals
According to sources on the union well being ministry, the transfer is prone to be emulated at different Centre-run hospitals within the capital. Ministry sources mentioned that the transfer got here after Mandaviya expressed displeasure on a go to to the hospital. He even shared in his speeches that the presence of heavy safety preparations intimidated the sufferers who go to the hospitals 
 

<br /> NEW DELHI:   The Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) has terminated the companies of marshals and bouncers from its campus on Tuesday following instructions from Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.  Sources within the ministry mentioned that the transfer got here after Mandaviya expressed displeasure on a go to to the hospital. He even shared in his speeches that the presence of heavy safety preparations intimidated sufferers. </p> <p>“They don’t come to fight. They (patients) come for the treatment and doctors should show empathy towards them,” the union minister had mentioned whereas talking at an occasion at Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) earlier this 12 months. The Centre-run hospital’s deputy director V Ok Sharma wrote a letter to the non-public company which was roped in for the safety association.  “Services of marshals/bouncers are temporarily suspended at LHMC and Associated Hospitals,” the letter learn.</p> <p>According to sources on the union well being ministry, the transfer is prone to be emulated at different Centre-run hospitals.  “RML Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital have also employed the services of private security personnel. Soon they may be instructed to end the contract,” a senior official mentioned. However, the transfer has irked the medical doctors fraternity who are actually involved for his or her safety since incidents of assault by attendants of sufferers are standard at public hospitals. </p> <p>Dr Sarda, common secretary, the Resident Doctors Association, LHMC, mentioned the medical doctors weren’t consulted earlier than incorporating the choice and a group of medical doctors will meet the hospital administration to get to the rationale behind the transfer  “We are understaffed and the additional security gives us the confidence to work in a conducive environment. We were not consulted. However, we will try to get the reason behind the move first as the removal of security will concern us all for our security,” he mentioned. </p> <p>A number of months in the past, a junior physician from the paediatric division of LHMC was brutally assaulted by attendants of a kid who was introduced useless to the hospital. The attendants didn’t settle for the declaration of demise by the physician on responsibility and pressurised him to confess the kid. When refused, the physician was severely crushed.</p> <p>In different hospitals<br /> According to sources on the union well being ministry, the transfer is prone to be emulated at different Centre-run hospitals within the capital. Ministry sources mentioned that the transfer got here after Mandaviya expressed displeasure on a go to to the hospital. He even shared in his speeches that the presence of heavy safety preparations intimidated the sufferers who go to the hospitals <br />  <br />