A day after doctors in West Bengal called off their week-long strike after meeting state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who assured them of steps to scale up security at Government hospitals, their colleagues at various hospitals in the national Capital resumed duties on Tuesday,
Resident Doctors’ Association of the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said that with the decision of the protesting doctors of West Bengal to call off the strike, the resident doctors at AIIMS, New Delhi too shall resume their duties with immediate effect.
“We sincerely hope that the Central Government shall soon bring in a new central law on doctors’ security as promised by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan in a time-bound manner, failing which we would be forced to resort to strike in future,” it said in a statement.
This comes against the backdrop of the medical fraternity holding protests all over the country in solidarity with the junior doctors in West Bengal who were on a strike after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
