Protests by health professionals in Rohtak too
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, August 17
Doctors serving at the PGIMS, state-run health facilities as well as private hospitals staged demonstrations in Rohtak today against the recent rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.
Patients and their attendants suffered grave inconvenience due to the strike by the PGIMS resident doctors and staff of private hospitals.
The resident doctors at Rohtak PGIMS continued their strike and took out a march under the aegis of the PGIMS Resident Doctors Association (RDA). They were joined by representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), who also observed a strike today.
Members of the HCMS doctors’ association also staged demonstrations at their respective government hospitals, while condemning the Kolkata incident.
“We will stage a joint protest demonstration with the RDA tomorrow,” said Dr Vishwajit Rathi, the president of the Rohtak chapter of HCMS Association.
Meanwhile, the strike call given by the IMA evoked a mixed response in Rohtak, with several hospitals providing only emergency services, while many small clinics and nursing homes operated as usual.
On the other hand, the PGIMS Nurses Association ended its strike and the nursing officers and senior nursing officers joined their duties at the institute.
