Saturday, June 15, 2019

Medical services hit as doctors’ stir spreads

NEW DELHI, JUNE 15, 2019 00:00 IST

Up in arms:A protest at Nair Hospital in Mumbai against the attack on doctors at a hospital in West Bengal.Emmanual YoginiThe Hindu

IMA calls nationwide strike for June 17 against assault in Kolkata hospital

Hospital services were affected in different parts of the country on Friday as a doctors’ agitation that began in West Bengal following an assault on medical professionals spread to the national capital, Kerala, Telangana, Chandigarh and even Jammu and Kashmir.

While 300 doctors in West Bengal quit on Friday evening, demanding additional security and assurance of a safe work environment, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) sought to intensify a nationwide protest over the next two days and called for the withdrawal of all non-essential health services on June 17. “The gruesome incident in NRS Medical College, Kolkata, is of barbaric nature,” the IMA said in a statement on Friday.

“The IMA condemns the violence perpetrated on a young doctor,” it added.

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