NEET PG counselling | Doctors’ protest enters 13th day; more resident doctors associations join stir
The HinduPatient care was affected at several major hospitals in Delhi on December 29 as resident doctors protesting over the delay in NEET PG counselling intensified their agitation even as members of more resident doctors associations joined the stir in the national capital. Resident doctors association of the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital on December 19 morning issued a statement that its members were “withdrawing services” to protest the alleged police action during a face-off between them and medics on Monday, and demanded expediting of the NEET PG counselling process. Visuals emerged on social media of doctors at the Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya and Northern Railway Central Hospital holding banners with messages like ‘Black day for medical fraternity’, ‘Couselling karao, doctors bulao’, and chanting slogans, ‘We want justice’. The meeting between a delegation of FORDA and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had taken place at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi, but the doctors’ body had said, the “response was not satisfactory”.