Jammu GMC junior doctors’ strike continues
Jammu: Junior doctors in Government Medical College (GMC) hospital, Jammu, continued to be on strike amid protests against assault on a couple of their colleagues by the attendants of a patient on July 16.
According to Kashmir Media Service, an FIR was registered in the case on Wednesday after the incident yet the junior doctors refused to join their duties until the arrest of the main accused in the assault case.
Though senior doctors, all faculty members and consultants performed duties in the Emergency and other wings, the functioning of GMC hospital, Jammu, remained affected and patients from far-flung areas continued to suffer.
Mohammad Taj, a patient from Rajouri, while sharing his plight, said that he had come all the way from the border district but the junior doctors refused to see him stating till the person who assaulted their colleague was not arrested, they would not see patients.
“Many patients like me have come from far-off places. If it continues like this, they will die without treatment. The Government should immediately intervene to save innocent patients craving for immediate attention,” he said.
Som Nath Dabgotra, a social activist, blamed the administration for not being able to end the stalemate. “Patients are suffering.
Mudasir, an attendant with a patient from Sudh Mahadev in Chenani, too sought immediate intervention of the administration by resolving the issue with junior doctors to address the plight of patients from distant places.
Junior doctors deployed in the Emergency wing of Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital, Jammu on Wednesday evening went on a flash strike to protest an “act of violence against doctors by the attendants of a patient.”
Later in a press conference, GMC, Jammu, administration condemned the “act of violence” against doctors by the attendants of a patient in the Emergency.
“In a gruesome incident that happened on July 16,2025, the attendants of the patients resorted to physical and verbal violence against doctors on duty in the emergency. The incident took place after the death of a terminally ill patient,” Dr Gupta said.
