Mangaluru: Strike has little effect in hospitals
No OPD bandh
Mangaluru: Private Doctors have called for a nationwide strike to protest against the Central Government’s National Medical Commission Bill. Even though, the prominent hospitals in Mangaluru, including Father Muller, AJ, KMC, have thrown open their OPDs and doctors are treating patients.
Though the Indian Medical Association has called for an OPD bandh, on-duty Doctors are attending patients at OPDs here. “We are not sending patients back,” authorities of Father Muller and AJ Hospitals said.
The Central Government intends to pass the bill on the recommendation of the National Medical Commission. We have called for a one-day symbolic strike. Except for emergency services, no OPDs will be opened,” the president of the private doctors association said at a press conference in Bengaluru.
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5 schoolchildren among 7 killed in blast in southwest Pakistan
Islamabad (PTI): At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed on Friday in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports.
The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province, Dawn newspaper reported.
“It appears that an IED (improvised explosive device) attached to a motorcycle was detonated near a police mobile,” Kalat Division Commissioner Naeem Bazai was quoted as saying in the report.
“So far, seven individuals have been killed, including five school students,” Bazai said. At least 22 people were injured in the attack.
Most of those injured were schoolchildren, Geo News reported, adding that they were shifted to a nearby hospital.
A police van and several auto-rickshaws were damaged in the explosion, according to the report.
An emergency was declared across all Quetta hospitals after the blast, the report said quoting the provincial health department spokesperson, adding that all doctors, pharmacists, staff nurses and other medical staff were summoned.
