The junior residents at Hyderabad’s Osmania General Hospital have threatened to boycott their services starting September 8 if their infrastructural demands are not met.
The OGH is Telangana’s only apex tertiary care hospital for non-COVID-19 care at the moment after Gandhi hospital, another tertiary care center, was designated for COVID-19 management. The century-old hospital is marred with issues ranging from an alleged shortage of medical equipment, lack of space for patient care or even to perform surgeries.
The hospital’s outpatient block or the heritage block was officially shut down on July 22, and all elective surgeries in departments of general surgery, general medicine, and surgical gastroenterology are stopped for lack of an operation theatre, and only emergency surgeries are performed. Indian Express
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