AIIMS Bhubaneswar doctors join strike in support of Bengal agitation

Sambad English Bureau Published On : Jun 14, 2019 at 10:15 AM Updated On : Jun 14, 2019 at 8:52 PM

Bhubaneswar: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar today came in support of the striking doctors against brutal assault on two colleagues in Kolkata.

The resident doctors of the country’s premier medical college in Odisha capital joined around 80,000 colleagues across the country after the India Medical Association declared “All India Protest Day” on Friday against the attack on doctors in Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal.

They joined the pan India protest and pen down strike which includes OPD, routine, OT and ward work. However, the emergency services will remain unaffected.

“Physical violence along with government apathy is unacceptable for individual in this country. The repeated atrocious acts of barbarism have propelled pan India strike and support to our young brothers and sisters, who constitute the biggest manpower to any government health institute,” AIIMS Bhubaneswar said in a release.

The AIIMS Bhubaneswar termed the attack on NRS doctors as ‘grievous’ and ‘heinous’ crime against the medical fraternity of West Bengal.

Meanwhile, over 3000 resident doctors in Delhi’s AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital also joined the striking colleagues in Bengal.

The healthcare services in West Bengal were severely affected for the fourth consecutive day on Friday with the junior doctors continuing their protest in defiance of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s ultimatum to join the work.

The junior doctors of the NRS Medical College and Hospital that was closed since Tuesday a day after the attack on two doctors in the hospital however, allowed patients to be taken to the emergency ward.

However, the outdoor patients department (OPD) continued to be shut in almost all state-run hospitals in Bengal.

The doctors are on the strike since Tuesday after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured at the NRS Medical College and Hospital on Monday night by family members of an octogenarian patient who passed away.