Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) activists torched effigy of the State Government on Saturday to vent anger over the poor condition of the female hospital of Government Doon Medical College (GDMC).
The party’s women wing activists gathered outside the female hospital- now in the eye of a storm following the death of a mother and her newborn due to alleged medical negligence- in the afternoon and staged a stir. Led by the women wing chief of the party Rameshewari Chauhan, the workers put to flame an effigy of the state government. Agitated workers also stormed into the hospital and yelled slogans in the office of CMS Dr Meenakshi Joshi. Tension running rife, some of the UKD activists were involved in minor skirmishes with the hospital staff. Police had to intervene to restore peace.
Later, the nursing staff of the hospital staged a protest outside the administrative block of the hospital. The nurses and other staff members demanded that the hospital administration should provide them with adequate security in view of the repeated assault attempts on them. The agitated nurses were later pacified by the assurance of security being strengthened in the hospital campus from Monday. They thereafter returned to their duty.
