New Delhi: In Delhi today, health facilities can be affected in private and government hospitals because a large number of doctors have decided to boycott one day work while showing solidarity with their colleagues performing in Kolkata. According to many medical institutions in the city, except OPD, regular OT services will remain closed in many hospitals except emergency services.
The Bengal doctors have been on a strike since Tuesday, after a junior doctor was assaulted at a government-run hospital in Kolkata by the relatives of a patient who died. Members of Resident Doctors’ Association of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) work wore helmets & bandages, as a mark of protest against “worsening of violence against medical doctors in West Bengal.”
The resident doctors’ association of AIIMS urged doctors’ bodies across the country to join the token strike.
Doctors Giving Mamata Banerjee ultimatum, saying they won’t get back to work until they get better security. On the other hand Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP and the CPM of engineering the strike and playing “Hindu-Muslim politics”.
