NEET PG Counselling protest: Doctors in Maharashtra to go on strike from today

In Nagpur, more than 500 resident doctors at two government hospitals will "withdraw" from Out Patient Departments, non-emergency ward work, departmental work and elective services from Friday, said local units of MARD.

Resident doctors' groups from various hospitals in Maharashtra to go on strike from today to seek a resolution of the NEET PG 2021 counselling delay issue. With a large number of doctors going on strike, it is likely that the services across the government hospitals will be affected. 

While speaking on the same, Sanchari Pal, general secretary of the local KEM hospital unit of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), said resident doctors at some government hospitals had already been on strike from December 30. 
"Our fundamental demand is resolution of the NEET-PG counseling issue with a proper timeline. The MARD was also expressing solidarity with its counterpart in Delhi. We demand action against the perpetrators involved in violence against the doctors," Pal said, referring to the police action against the protesting medical students in the national capital earlier this week.

The FIRs registered against protesting doctors must be withdrawn immediately, she added.

Meanwhile, in Nagpur, more than 500 resident doctors at two government hospitals will "withdraw" from Out Patient Departments, non-emergency ward work, departmental work and elective services from Friday, said local units of MARD.

Resident doctors in Maharashtra have been working relentlessly during the pandemic, but with a third wave looming and delay in NEET PG counseling causing shortage of resident doctors, the serving resident doctors will not be equipped to execute their duties efficiently, said the MARD unit at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) here.

"It's been more than six months that we have made multiple legal appeals and have protested silently but despite working with 2/3rd of the workforce our pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Last week even more unacceptable and shameful event occurred, where our peacefully protesting resident doctors were brutally thrashed," it said in a statement.

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