Medical services in the entire country were badly affected due to doctor’s strike in protest against the rape and brutal murder of a lady doctor working at RG Kar hospital in Kolkata.
Even private medical services remained paralysed in India following a 24 hour call for bund given by Indian Medical Association.
Except for emergencies all departments were closed as both private and government doctors abstained from work from 6 am on August 16 to 6 am on August 17.
But these 24 hours were enough for those undergoing treatment or patients who wanted to seek doctor’s advice.
Medical staff worked only in the emergency wards of hospitals where the rush was so much that most patients had to either return or had to undergo gruelling experience while waiting for their turn in this humid weather.
Doctors in Delhi met union health minister JP Nadda under the banner of Resident Doctors Association.
President IMA Dr Ashokan said he will be writing to the Prime Minister. It’s time when the PM needs to intervene in this matter.
Doctors in every nook and corner in this country are united on this sensitive issue and we hope that the government would soon enact a law that we have been demanding.