The Indian Medical Association i.e. IMA has released its survey report. The association reported that out of 3,885 doctors in the country, more than 35% of which women are, they feel unsafe and variable during night shifts. IMA stated that a third of the doctors, most of whom were women, feel “Unsafe” or “very unsafe” during their night shift, so insecure that some also felt the need to keep weapons for self -defense.
IMA surveyed online
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) conducted an online survey conducted to evaluate the safety concerns of doctors in the night shift in view of alleged rape and murder with trainee female doctors in Kolkata’s Government RG, Medical College and Hospital, in which found in which found found. That 45 percent of the doctors did not have a duty room during the night shift. The IMA claimed in the report that this is India’s largest study report on the subject with 3,885 doctors.
Doctors from more than 22 states in the survey
Dr. Rajiv Jayadevan, president of the Research Cell of Kerala State IMA, and his team conducted a survey, which included doctors from more than 22 states, out of which 85 percent were under 35 years of age, while 61 percent were trainee or postgraduate trainee. Of these, the number of women was 63 percent. The survey revealed that “Many doctors said to feel unsafe (24.1 percent) or very unsafe (11.4 percent), which is one third of the total respondents. The proportion of those who felt insecure was more in women.”
Concern due to many issues
It was observed in the survey that the spirit of security was the lowest among doctors at the age of 20-30 and the group mainly included intern and postgraduate. During the night shift, duty room was not available for 45 percent of doctors. Those who had duty rooms were more concerned about security. At the same time, the duty room often used to find out due to congestion, lack of confidentiality and lack of locks, due to which doctors have to find an alternative place and where there are duty rooms, one third of them do not have attached bathrooms.
The study states that, “In more than half of cases (53 percent), the duty room is far away from the ward/emergency area. At the same time, about one third of the duty rooms are not attached to the bathroom, which means that doctors to doctors One has to go out late at night to use these features. ”
Doctors give suggestions
Doctors suggested to increase security, including increasing the number of trainee security, installation of CCTV cameras, arranging good lights, implementing the Central Security Act (CPA), limiting the number of spectators, imposing alarm systems and safe duty including locks Basic facilities like room include.
Survey through Google Form
Dr. Jayadevan said, “This online survey was sent to both government and private doctors across India through Google Form. On which 3,885 reactions were received within 24 hours.” The study states that doctors across the country, especially women, feel insecure during the night shift. This also shows that there is a lot of scope for improvement in security personnel and equipment in healthcare centers. Amendment to the infrastructure is necessary to ensure safe, clean and accessible duty rooms, bathrooms, food and drinking water.
It states that it is also necessary to have adequate staffing, effective triazing and crowd control in patient care places to ensure that doctors can pay attention to every patient without fear. The doctors participating in the survey insisted on several additional issues.
Many shortcomings came in front
The study states that lack of adequate number of trend security personnel, lack of lights in corridors, lack of CCTV cameras and individuals without permission in patient care areas were the most frequently made comments. Some doctors stated the need to keep weapons for self -defense. A doctor admitted that she always holds a foldable knife and chili spray in her handbag as the duty room is at the distant end of a dark and deserted corridor.
Doctors working on the accident case said that they get threats from drunk or drunk people. Another doctor said that he faced bad touch repeatedly in the crowded emergency room. The situation is worse in some small hospitals where there are limited employees and no protection.
Administrator’s apathy became anxiety
Many doctors asked about safety concerns, when the administrator’s apathy was talked about, a common excuse was that senior doctors have also faced similar working conditions. Violence is mainly encountered by junior doctors, who are particularly unsafe due to being ahead on every front, but their participation in making administration or policy is low. Policies to improve patient care on sanier faculty members It is the responsibility of implementing and increasing safety measures, creating a safe work envi
ronment for junior doctors.
