NIMS resident doctors launch flash strike after alleged threat to junior doctor

Resident doctors at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) launched a flash strike on Thursday morning following an alleged incident in which a junior resident was verbally abused and threatened with physical violence by attendants of a patient.

Although an FIR was initially registered based on a personal complaint filed by the junior resident doctor, the NIMS Resident Doctors Association (RDA), which is leading the protest, has escalated the issue, demanding that the NIMS management file a case from its side.

The protesting resident doctors demanded enhanced workplace security and systemic accountability from the hospital management.

The alleged incident took place on Wednesday between 2.20 pm and 4.30 pm at the triage and ICUs on the first floor of the Emergency



Medicine Department.

According to NIMS resident doctors, the junior doctor, Dr K Sreekanth, had promptly attended to a patient and advised necessary medical steps, including a neurology consultation, a CT head scan and Foley catheterisation. 

However, because Dr Sreekanth was simultaneously managing other critical emergency cases, a brief delay occurred in performing the catheterisation.

The delay apparently provoked the patient’s attendants, who began hurling verbal abuse and questioning the doctors’ salaries. According to junior residents, the attendants also threatened physical violence against Dr Sreekanth.

Later, security personnel and the duty RMO intervened to defuse the situation, after which Dr Sreekanth filed a written complaint with the RMO.