Ekta Purohit| Delhi
A special run was organized by Resident Doctor Association, All India Institute of Medical Sciences to spread public awareness on the issue of violence which medical doctors have to face in critical care services when survival of patient goes beyond the doctor`s control.
Around 1000 medicos attended the event not only from AIIMS but also from medical colleges of various other states. It was 5kms marathon started from AIIMS at morning 7.30am onwards and led to Sri Aurobindo Marg, followed by Balbir Saxena marg and August Kranti Marg. It ended at AIIMS hostel campus.
On the occasion the chief guest Prof. M.C. Misra, Director of AIIMS said such events should be organized more often to create public awareness. He emphasized that patient needs to understand that death is inevitable in certain circumstances.
There is need to improve the communication skills by resident doctors so as to communicate the true condition of the patient to their relatives Misra added.
Doctors try their best in the interest of patients however due to shortage of time and manpower they are sometimes not able to discuss the critical situation with the patients. Hence, they need to communicate more often, at the same time patients should also trust the doctors completely, said Dr.Misra.
Dr. Tarun, President, RDA AIIMS said, there is need to rebuild the lost patient doctor relationship and trust.
Such event has been increasing over the period. We have seen very serious offense on the part of the public where doctors have been beaten brutally for no fault.
Therefore we thought that this was a very important public issue concerning doctors and hence need to be discussed with open minds. We plan to do the same kind of events in future added Dr.Tarun who organized the event.
