AIIMS doctors writ to PM Modi urging him to live their lives for one day
The doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to visit the institution in order to understand the stress they are working under.
In a letter to Mr. Modi, the AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) on Saturday urged the Prime Minister to understand the tremendous stress on doctors at government hospitals due to the poor infrastructure and misbehaviour of patient’s kin during emergency situations.
“We are lucky to have an active PM like you… Now RDA AIIMS requests you to put [on] white apron and spend one day as a government doctor to understand the tremendous amount of pressure we face, the agony of patients who did not get treatment, the dying healthcare system due to lack of resources and infrastructure,” AIIMS RDA president Harjit Singh Bhatti wrote in the letter.
Earlier last week, the Rajasthan Government invoked the Rajasthan Essential Services Maintenance Act (RESMA) for three months after the All Rajasthan In-Service Doctors’ Association (ARISDA) warned of indefinite strike in support of their demands.
Following this, several doctors in the state were arrested.
