New Delhi: Intensify their stirring for the delay in the Neet-PG 2021 counseling, a number of resident doctors in Delhi on Monday symbolically “restore their lab coat”, and issued a march on the streets.
As a protest continued, patient care remained affected in three central running facilities – Safdarjung, RML, and female hospitals – and several hospitals managed by the Delhi government.
The Federation of the Association of Doctors Resident (Forda) has pioneered protests over the past few days.
President Forda Manish claimed that the population doctor a large number of major hospitals on Monday “restored their aprons (lab coats) in the symbolic movement of rejection of service”.
“We also tried to march from the Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) campus to the Supreme Court, but as soon as we started, security personnel did not allow us to continue,” he said.
Manish also accused several doctors “detained” by the police, and taken to the police station, before being released after some time.
He also accused the police used and some doctors were injured.
Forda, in his Twitter handle, also showed police personnel and protesters wrestling with each other, with the police bus seen in the background.
However, the police denied lathicharge’s allegations or the use of rough language from their end, and said 12 protesters were detained and released later.
They said for more than six to eight hours, protesters blocked Ito roads.
Repeated requests are made so that they move from the place, but they continue to dock.
Then, the two Marg Ito lines were also blocked by protesters, according to the police.
“We talked to associations and tried to sort this problem, but they continued to block the road,” said a police officer.
According to the police, while protesters were removed from the road, they tried to tear the police personnel uniform.
They even broke the glasses of police vehicles and behaved badly with troops.
“We returned ‘Taali, Thali’ and symbolic flowers and burned ‘Diyas’ and today we also return our aprons, which is a symbol of our medical services.
But, we haven’t heard anything from government authorities, so our protests will continue .
“Manish said.
The association on Saturday said its members would be forced to go for “mass resignation” from services if their demands did not meet the earliest.
The doctor’s score that lived on Saturday also turned on ‘Diyas’ to register their protests here, even when patient care remained affected at various facilities in the city.
On Wednesday, a large number of doctors had protested outside Nirman Bhawan, who accommodated the UNI Ministry of Health Office, and later in the afternoon they had gathered at MAMC’s place and turned on ‘Diyas’ and marched.
MAMC came under the Delhi government and three facilities, including the LNJP hospital, attached to it.
Last Tuesday, a group of doctors had thrown flowers in security barricades, and equipment tighten and clapping in front of Nirman Bhawan here, said they symbolically “returned” the maniaris to become a Covid soldier.