Doctors at major hospitals including AIIMS to remain on strike today
Showing solidarity with their counterparts in the Neel Ratna Government (NRS) Medical College, Kolkata Doctors from West Bengal to Delhi are striking. Doctors of 18 hospitals, including 14 major hospitals in the national capital, have declared a strike on Saturday.
Over 10 thousand doctors are joining this strike. Under the banner of the Federation of Resident Doctors Association, doctors of all these hospitals have given the written information of the strike to their medical superintendent. People may have to face severe problems by ongoing strike of these doctors. Due to the strike of doctors, health services have been disrupted in many parts of India.
Strike in these hospitals in Delhi
Those hospitals of Delhi who will be on strike on Saturday, include AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital, Hindu Rao Hospital, BMH Delhi, Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (Ihabas), Shri Dada Dev Mother and Child Other hospitals, Northern Railway Central Hospital, ESIC Hospital, Chacha Nehru Child Hospital, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Guru Gobind Singh Hospital are included.
Doctors in Jammu and Kashmir will be on 2 hour strike
Apart from this, the Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination Committee has also announced to strike. According to the Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination Committee, in all the hospitals of Jammu and Kashmir and Leh region, there will be a two-hour sign strike from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon.
Doctors turned down Mamata’s offer to negotiate
At the same time, doctors have turned down the invitation to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Apart from this, more than 100 doctors have resigned in West Bengal. At present the doctors’ strike does not seem to end.
Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan writes to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on ongoing doctors’ strike in the state, asking her to ‘personally intervene to resolve the current impasse.’
