'Harassment forced me into pre-term labour'

Cama hospital, the biggest government-run maternity hospital in the city, has found itself in a soup after a pregnant assistant professor alleged that the medical superintendent harassed her, and that this resulted in her getting pre-term labour pain, forcing her to leave her job. However, the college and Grant Medical College (GMC) have refuted these claims. 
Dr Priyanka Pohekar joined Cama and Albless Hospital on October 1, 2015, as an assistant professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where, she claimed, medical superintendent Dr Rajshree Katke humiliated her frequently, which took a toll on her, leading to extreme mental and emotional stress. This then allegedly caused complications in her pregnancy, and to save her unborn child, she was forced to quit from the job. 
On August 31, she filed a complaint with the head of the department and dean of GMC. A copy of the complaint is with mid-day. 

50% JJ doctors ducked rural service

The state government spends Rs 5 lakh on every medical student by providing basic facilities free of cost and charging minimum fees. But despite this, many medical students refuse to serve rural Maharashtra. Nearly 50 per cent of the under and post-graduate students, after passing out from one of the biggest government-run colleges, Grant Medical College, Mumbai, have opted out of a one-year bond to serve in rural Maharashtra, in the past five years.

Grant Medical College and JJ group of hospitals, are among top medical institutions in the country, but mid-day, through an RTI query, has found that out of 645 students from the under-graduate and post-graduate courses there, 354 students opted out of the bond from 2011 to 2015.
In 2013, the Bombay High Court instructed the state to ensure that all doctors, after their MBBS and PG courses, serve in rural hospitals.

A patient is abandoned at JJ Hospital every week

The odour of bandaged wounds is the first sensation that is experienced when one sets foot in ward number 4 at JJ Hospital. At the end of this ward lies Hema Mohanty, a patient who receives no visitors or well-wishers. The 26-year-old can be seen reeling in pain with blood oozing from her left leg, which has rotted away due to gangrene. Ms Mohanty is in need of immediate surgery to stop the infection from spreading all over her body. And in addition to her agony, she has come to grips with the fact that it was her own husband who had abandoned her here.

Medical negligence cases gather dust at JJ Hospital

In 2013, Nandini Suchde, a resident of Colaba filed acomplaint at Azad Maidan police station against doctors from Bombay Hospitalalleging negligence that led to the death of her mother.

As per rules, police referred her case to a team of medical experts at Sir JJ Group of Hospitals for further investigation. The panel confirmed professional medical negligence and an FIR was registered against the doctors by the police station. However, a few months later, the same panel refuted the report and denied medical negligence in the case.