Overview
- Outpatient clinics, routine services and elective surgeries have been suspended across state-run hospitals, while emergency care remains operational.
- The action follows the sacking of Dr Raghav Narula after an internal probe found misconduct, though the committee also held the patient partly responsible.
- Health authorities issued SOPs to keep essential services running, redeploying consultants to OPDs as several planned surgeries were postponed.
- Police recorded statements in the IGMC pulmonary ward and moved to secure digital evidence of the incident, with Dr Narula’s complaint under investigation.
- Medical associations backed reinstatement and stronger hospital security, as the Chief Minister pledged an inquiry and new safeguards and the health minister indicated talks to resolve the dispute.