Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 21: People today held a protest demonstration at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), after a youth died, due to alleged negligence by the doctor.
Raising slogans against the health authorities and management of the hospital, the irate mob along with the dead body of the deceased person assembled outside Emergency of the Hospital and held protest.
Relatives of the deceased and locals alleged that 24 years old Anil, son of Ravi Kumar of Kabir Colony, Talab Tillo, was admitted to Hospital due to some illness today but doctors didn’t provide him timely help resulting into his death.
They alleged that there is no proper facility in the hospital and no senior staff is available in the hospital. Junior doctors and the medical students were diagnosing the patients in this big hospital, they added.
The relatives of the deceased alleged that due to negligence by the doctors, their kin has died and demanded probe into the matter, so that the doctors behind the negligence death could be punished.
Later police officials from Bakshi Nagar Police Station headed by SHO Dilip Singh rushed to the spot and pacified the protestors assuring them to take the matter with concerned higher authorities.
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