Part 6
The change was anticipated. Things were too messed up. For a few days after Dr. Kirti took over charge all went fine but soon many felt the atmosphere in Sanjeevani deteriorating. The person in question for the change in atmosphere was none other whom he sort support from for his daughter. Everyday seemed to be a party or a special day being celebrated. Initially, both Shashank and Dr Kirti let it go. To a greater extent Dr Kirti even supported it for easing the tension in Dr Subhankar and her relationship but later things started going out of hand. Many accused both Shashank and Dr Kirti leniency for aiding repair to Riddhima's personal life. Every misconduct or lapse was compared with armaan's slippages in conduct. Though he was a decent doctor in fact one of the toppers of his time as an intern but everyone took leverage of his casual behavior to give an excuse for their own. At such times, both Dr Kirti and Shashank were tongue tied. Sanjeevani Mumbai became a laughing stock at all Sanjeevani meeting and soon the management decided it was high time to take action. Shashank due to his previous record was spared to a greater extent but was definitely asked to pull up his socks. They were considering bringing back Dr. Abhimanyu Modi but Dr. Banerjee of US Sanjeevani convinced the board to dismiss the idea and have only the DO changed and review the situation.
Due to all this, Shashank was already aware of Sid's appointment as a DO. He was a little scared. Natural for a father of a daughter whose past kept on interfering with her present. He wondered if this was going to be history repeating itself. He was already seeing a definite rift between armaan and Riddhima. In the initial days things seemed more than fine but soon things started changing.
At home she would be lost in her own world. Many of the nights he has seen Riddhima strolling on the terrace or her balcony or plainly standing there staring at the sky. If at all she was in a room, she would lay down flicking the night lamp on and off. Her work was suffering as she would most of the time she would be tired and drowsy. Patients are a doctor's first priority and they should receive their undivided attention. Riddhima was caught violating this fundamental rule. One day while working in the OPD she had tried shifting a patient to another doctor without any valid reason for not attending the patient. Shashank found Riddhima too edgy around armaan and he concluded this was the reason behind not attending the patient. She was trying to avoid interaction with armaan. Off late even the mention of his name unsettled her. He was worried of the consequences Sid's comeback would have on his daughter and her relationship with armaan.
He was hoping to manage some change before the order was affected, thus trying to buy more time to either delay or better still cancel the order. But while doing all this he did not want Riddhima to know any of it and so he packed his daughter off for a holiday. Knowing armaan, he would follow her. Initially Riddhima resisted the idea of a holiday but Shashank had a better plan. He sent armaan to Delhi Sanjeevani on pretext of some work and cleared ground for setting things right.
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