Over 2000 resident doctors in New Delhi goes on indefinite strike demanding proper security & drinking water
Over 2,000 resident doctors in New Delhi are on indefinite strike from June 22 demanding various measures that can improve healthcare delivery.
Major demands of the striking doctors
- Security at workplace
- Adequate life-saving and generic drugs
- Drinking water
- Salary on time
The doctors, under the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) umbrella, have written to the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, requesting him to urgently look into the matter and take remedial measures.
“The emergency services will remain unaffected while outpatient departments and other work will be hit,” warned doctors.
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Doctors from the Central Delhi and Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) hospitals will be joining the strike. Hospitals that are likely to be affected include Safdarjung, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Maulana Azad Medical College, GTB, Deen Dayal Upadhyay, ESI, Hindu Rao and Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) besides the MCD-run hospitals.
Doctors noted that they have been forced to take this “drastic step due to the government’s failure to fulfil their demands.”
A resident doctor at Safdarjung Hospital explained:
“Doctors in the hospital are prone to attacks from patients’ attendants and despite being promised adequate security we don’t have enough cover. Almost every month there are reports of assault and abuse of medical personnel at workplace.”
Recently a research from MCI concluded that more than 75% of doctors in India face some kind of violence in workspace.
He added that hospitals in the Capital are facing acute shortage of basic facilities for doctors including residential quarters and drinking water.
“The medical establishments are plagued by shortage of life-saving and generic drugs, which further worsens the situation and puts undue pressure on medical workers,”
Recently, a doctor from Indore was brutally attacked by patient’s relatives. Earlier in the year, a gastroenterologist from Allahabad and a duty doctor from Mumbai was attacked brutally.
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