Seven BPKIHS docs resign over security issue

Seven medical officers working at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan have resigned over security issues, Annapurna Post daily reported Thursday.

BPKIHS Docs Call Off Strike

According to Dr BP Das, director of the institute, house officers of emergency ward Dr Madhav Prasad Dev, Dr Poonam Modha, Dr Priya Darshi Adarsha, Dr Nidhi Sodhiya, Dr Abhishek Chaudhary, Dr Dilasha Katwal and Dr Nishant Mishra have tendered their resignations showing lack of security at the hospital as the reason.

Their resignation has put the hospital, which is already facing a shortage of doctors, at a difficult situation, Dr Das said. Their resignations have not been accepted yet, he added.

The doctors resigned after the trend of attacks on doctors from kins of the patients increased lately. Dr Modha said she resigned due to security reasons as attendants of a patient attacked her during the course of treatment.

Likewise, Dr Adarsha said, she resigned as the hospital management could not provide security.

‘How can we feel safe, when security personnel deployed here do nothing when we are attacked,” she added.

BPKIHS doctors had called a strike about two weeks ago demanding security.

Another specialist doctor Dr Yam Bahadur Roka resigned a month ago. Neuro department has been without a doctor after he resigned.