Anish Narda
DTMT decided to take a closer look at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital (LNJP) in Delhi, to assess the impact of the doctors' strike on June 14, 2019. The situation in LNJP was miserable as the patients were not getting treatment and were a harried lot.

People took a day off from work to come to the hospital but did not get the treatment they wanted. They had to wait outside the hospital and hope that the doctors would change their mind and treat them. These people were paying the price for what happened in West Bengal, which isn’t the fault of these patients.

People outside LNJP hospital were confused, angry and frustrated as they could not understand what they did to deserve this and now had nowhere else to go. Patients had stationed themselves with their families outside the hospital or around the emergency room as no one was allowed to go inside the hospital as there was strict security by Delhi Police.

Some people had appointments to be admitted today in the hospital but no doctor was willing to treat them.

Doctors of the hospital were in a meeting and were not taking new patients in. Old patients who were admitted earlier were getting the treatment.

If you’ll go to the LNJP hospital any other day you’ll find hundreds of patients sitting inside the hospital but now there are patients sitting outside the hospital in this blistering heat which is making their health much worse.

For a while there was even a family sitting inside an ambulance waiting outside the hospital for the confirmation from higher authorities if they can enter the hospital or not in order to see a doctor. People are confused as to who to blame for this situation in which they had no part in. This situation feels disruptive towards both doctors and the patients as their relationship is beginning to be a toxic one.

Few families even came to the conclusion that they won’t get treated today, so, instead of waiting, they decided to go home.