Jr resident doctors protest suspension of colleague

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 19

A group of post graduate students cum junior resident doctors at Government Medical College staged a protest against the suspension of one of them on a complaint of a senior doctor.

The junior resident doctors stated that the suspended doctor had filed a complaint of ragging against him.

Earlier, a woman doctor had complained of harassment by one Abhishek Khera on duty. The protesting doctors stated that Khera was suspended for being forced to withdraw his complaint about ragging.

They submitted a notice to the principal stating that if the suspension was not revoked, they would initiate the protest in afternoon. The college authorities stated that the student was suspended on the basis of an enquiry report submitted by faculty members.