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Doctors’ strike Today India LIVE News Updates: The meeting between agitating doctors in West Bengal and CM Mamata Banerjee will take place today at the state secretariat. Follow this space to track the latest news
Nationwide doctors strike LIVE updates: A doctor holds a placard at a government hospital during a strike demanding security after the recent assaults on doctors by the patients’ relatives, in Agartala (Reuters)
Doctors’ strike Today India LIVE News Updates:
As the Bengal doctors’ strike enters day 7, the state government has written to the docs to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat today at 3pm. As per the demands of the doctors, Banerjee will meet two representatives from each medical college at 3 pm at the state secretariat. There is no mention, however, of any media presence – the other demand that the medicos had put up.
Meanwhile, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a nationwide withdrawal of non-essential medical services, including outdoor patient department (OPD) services, for 24 hours that began at 6 am today to protest the violence against doctors at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Emergency, casualty and ICU services remain unaffected. AIIMS which had decided to stay away from the protests joined the nationwide strike after a junior doctor at its trauma centre was assaulted in the early hours of Monday.
The IMA has demanded a national law and a minimum of 7 years imprisonment against violence in hospitals. Hospitals should be declared safe zones and provision of appropriate security should be the responsibility of the state, it added. The Delhi Medical Association and Safdarjung Hospital have joined the protest.
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CM Banerjee to meet Bengal doctors today
The West Bengal government has written to the protesting doctors, saying that Banerjee has agreed for a meeting with them. As per the demands of the agitating doctors, the CM will meet with two representatives from each medical college. The meeting to be held at Nabanna at 3 pm will focus on the demands of the medicos and the meeting will be "recorded and duly communicated", the letter further read
Injured Bengal doctor recovering well
The condition of Dr Paribaha Mukherjee, who was critically injured in an "assault" by a deceased patient's family in West Bengal, is recovering well. the medical bulletin issued by The Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata on Monday said. The reports show no additional problems, it added
Doctors protest: SC to hear on Tuesday plea for safety, security of docs at govt hospitals
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a plea seeking safety and security of doctors in government hospitals across the country. A vacation bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant agreed to list the matter for Tuesday after the counsel appearing for the petitioner, advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, sought urgent hearing. The petition has also sought directions to Union ministries of home affairs and health and West Bengal to depute government-appointed security personnel at all state-run hospitals across the country to ensure safety and security of doctors. (PTI)
Visuals from Varanasi doctor's protest
Visuals from Varanasi doctor's protest
Varanasi: Doctors on strike at Sir Sunderlal Hospital in Banaras Hindu University in the wake of violence against doctors in West Bengal pic.twitter.com/TD20TZFVzp
Though NIMHANS, Bengaluru, is a government hospital, doctors from here are participating in the strike and have shut outpatient services. NIMHANS officials have asked doctors to report to service and have withheld registration for OPD cases. Patients are asked to register only if it is an emergency.
Private hospitals in Bangalore support doctor's protest
Officials from private hospitals and nursing homes association of Karnataka say that they are supporting the strike, but are not encouraging to doctors to go on a protest mode. They, however, say that OPD will be affected today and in-patient services would not be affected. Emergency services would go on as usual. Meanwhile, faculty of Ramaiah hospital including students are planning a silent protest at BEL road. Follow more news from Bangalore here
Assault on anyone is unacceptable: Karanaaka CM H D Kumaraswamy
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy condemns attacks against doctors
Assault on anyone is unacceptable. I condemn the attack on the doctors and request the doctors on strike today to ensure that their protest is peaceful and does not cause any problems to the patients. #DoctorStrike#DoctorsProtest
10,000 resident doctors from 22 hospitals on strike: Delhi Medical Association
The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) have extended their support to the strike. The Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association India said in a statement that 10,000 resident doctors from 22 hospitals will remain on strike on Monday. Emergency services, it said, will not be hampered. Private hospital administrations said they support the protest and if doctors want to strike work, they can do it at an individual level.
AIIMS joins protest after one of its doctor's assaulted
AIIMS decided to join the protest after a junior doctor at its trauma centre was assaulted in the early hours of Monday. The medico at the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre was allegedly assaulted for "giving preferential care to a critical patient", the Resident Doctors' Association of AIIMS said in a statement. Doctors of the AIIMS also held a protest march in the campus between 8 am and 9 am. "We once again urge the West Bengal administration to fulfil the demands of the striking doctors and resolve the matter amicably at the earliest in the best interest of the general public," a statement issued by the RDA said, adding a meeting of its general body will be held at 6 pm to decide the further course of action.
Dilip Ghosh slams Mamata Banerjee for not visiting protesting doctors at NRS
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh criticised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not paying a visit to the protesting doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital. “She does not have time to visit NRS, but has time to sit on a dharna for IPS officer Rajeev Kumar. She must resolve the present crisis. Patients are suffering because of her ego. They have done no wrong. The doctors, too, need to resume work. They can hold talks with the state government but simultaneously they must provide treatment to the patients,” Ghosh said. “On moral grounds, we are supporting their protest. But that does not mean we can provoke them. But we want normalcy to return as soon as possible. We don’t want the situation to go on forever,” he added
Healthcare services in Delhi likely to be hit as hospitals joins IMA's all-India protest
Doctors at the Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, RML Hospital, as well as Delhi government facilities such as GTB Hospital, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital are joining the IMA strike.
Doctors protest: AIIMS protest march against violence
AIIMS takes outa protest march against the violence in Bengal. "We once again urge the West Bengal administration to fulfil the demands of the striking doctors and resolve the matter amicably at the earliest in the best interest of the general public," a statement issued by the AIIMS RDA said, adding a meeting of its general body will be held at 6 pm again to decide the further course of action.
Delhi: Resident Doctors' Association of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (#AIIMS) holds protest march against violence against doctors in West Bengal. pic.twitter.com/A2TyjiM8PO
Bengal doctors strike: Patients bear brunt as docs protest
Although not too many OPD patients have approached hospitals in Bengal in wake of the strike,, relatives of some in-house patients claim that they are suffering because of the deadlock. “My 89-year-old father was having some breathing problem. So, I admitted him to NRS on June 8, three days before the strike began,” said Shyamal Nashkar, who has come from Chakdah. “The hospital has not been able to provide him with proper oxygen facilities and he has stopped responding since Saturday morning. I think I will have to shift him to a private hospital,” he said.
However, there are many such families who support the doctors’ demand. “I support the movement. My mother is in the ICU and she is being taken care of. The demands of the doctors are justified. How can anyone be allowed to beat those who save our lives?” said Moinuddin Sheikh, a Tamluk resident.
Visuals from protests in Rajasthan
Doctors on strike in Jaipur
Rajasthan: Doctors on strike at Jaipuria Hospital in Jaipur; Indian Medical Association (IMA) today has called for a nationwide strike of doctors in the wake of violence against doctors in West Bengal pic.twitter.com/eE1LS1nQQA
Karnataka Health Minister Shivanand S Patil appealed to the doctors in the state to keep "symbolic" their protest to express solidarity with their West Bengal counterparts. In a letter to Karnataka chapter of IMA, which was released to the media, Patil condemned the attack on doctors in West Bengal recently and made a fervent appeal to those in the private and government hospitals in the state not to put ordinary citizens in trouble. "I fervently appeal to the government and private doctors to keep their agitation symbolic without putting patients in trouble. The people of the state will also support you if you keep your agitation symbolic and I believe that you will not put the poor patients of the state in trouble," he said.
Doctors strike: What are IMA's demands?
* The Indian Medical Association which has called for a nationwide strike has demanded a comprehensive central law in dealing with violence on doctors and healthcare staff, and in hospitals. * Hospitals should be declared as "safe zones". Structured safety measures, including three-layer security, CCTV cameras and restriction of entry of visitors should be well defined and enforced uniformly across the country in all sectors, it said. * It said to ensure that cases are registered, culprits arrested and conviction assured, mandatory provisions as provided in the POCSO Act should be instituted.
AIIMS to join doctors protest, to go on strike from 12 pm today
In a turn of events, AIIMS which had decided to stay away from the protests will now join the strike. The doctors will go on strike from 12 pm today to 6 am tomorrow. Earlier, the AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) said it would take out a protest march from 8 am to 9 am on Monday, but will refrain from the IMA strike.
Gujarat: Doctors at Vadodara hospital hold protests outside OPD
Doctors at Sir Sayajirao General Hospital hold protests outside the OPD in Gujarat's Vadodara
Gujarat: Indian Medical Association today has called for a nationwide strike of doctors in the wake of violence against doctors in West Bengal; Doctors at Sir Sayajirao General Hospital in Vadodara hold protest outside Out Patient Department pic.twitter.com/Ya6NS3CE3x
Why the health care logjam in Bengal was waiting to happen
Bengal has seen over 100 cases of attacks on doctors and medical staff in this year alone. The phenomenon is not new, spilling over from Left front regime to that of the rule of Trinamool Congress. While doctors and medical staff in West Bengal highlight a lack of security in state hospitals and medical colleges, relatives of patients complain of bad behaviour and lack of proper service. Read more
Doctors' strike: AIIMS won’t join protest
While doctors at Safdarjung Hospital and Delhi Medical Association have extended their support to the nationwide stir by IMA in Delhi, the AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) is not participating in the strike. In a statement, the AIIMS RDA said: “It has been decided to resort to a protest wherein patient-care services will not be hampered to ensure that the backlog of patients, including patients affected by the strike, is addressed appropriately.”
All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association, IMA Tripura join protest
Joining the protest in the All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association and IMA Tripura. Except for OPD, all other services will be rendered, Dr S Debbarma, General Secretary, IMA Tripura Unit told news agency ANI
Dr. S Debbarma,General Secy,IMA Tripura Unit:All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association & IMA Tripura to stop providing all OPD services for 24-hrs,today,as mark of protest against recent violence against doctors in West Bengal; except OPD services all services will be rendered pic.twitter.com/4nRi6Y2klB
Welcome to The Indian Express live blog. The Indian Medical Association has called for a nationwide stir today in solidarity with the Bengal doctors. A meeting with Mamata Banerjee is also likely today in Bengal. Follow this space to track the latest news
NRS Doctors agitation Express Photo Shashi Ghosh
The agitation was triggered by an attack on June 10 on two doctors at the NRS hospital allegedly by neighbours and relatives of a patient who died. Since then, the strike called by doctors has affected most health services, including at OPDs, in state-run hospitals — a number of doctors have also resigned from service.
Joining the protest in Bengal, the IMA had launched a four-day nationwide protest from Friday and wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding enactment of a central law to check violence against healthcare workers. In its statement, the IMA said effective implementation of the central law has to be ensured by incorporating suitable clauses.
Hospitals should be declared as "safe zones". Structured safety measures, including three-layer security, CCTV cameras and restriction of entry of visitors should be well defined and enforced uniformly across the country in all sectors, it said. Nineteen states have already passed legislation in this regard and in 2016, an inter-ministerial committee's recommendations document was signed by the IMA with the central government, the medical body said.
The latest decision by the agitating doctors comes a day after they refused to meet the Chief Minister at the state secretariat. The doctors had earlier refused to attend meetings called by Banerjee on Friday and Saturday. Sources in the government said that the latest offer by the doctors still leaves two major points of contention: the presence of media at the talks and the number of representatives that can be allowed on behalf of the doctors.
CM Banerjee to meet Bengal doctors today
The West Bengal government has written to the protesting doctors, saying that Banerjee has agreed for a meeting with them. As per the demands of the agitating doctors, the CM will meet with two representatives from each medical college. The meeting to be held at Nabanna at 3 pm will focus on the demands of the medicos and the meeting will be "recorded and duly communicated", the letter further read
Injured Bengal doctor recovering well
The condition of Dr Paribaha Mukherjee, who was critically injured in an "assault" by a deceased patient's family in West Bengal, is recovering well. the medical bulletin issued by The Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata on Monday said. The reports show no additional problems, it added
Doctors protest: SC to hear on Tuesday plea for safety, security of docs at govt hospitals
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a plea seeking safety and security of doctors in government hospitals across the country. A vacation bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant agreed to list the matter for Tuesday after the counsel appearing for the petitioner, advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, sought urgent hearing. The petition has also sought directions to Union ministries of home affairs and health and West Bengal to depute government-appointed security personnel at all state-run hospitals across the country to ensure safety and security of doctors. (PTI)
Visuals from Varanasi doctor's protest
Visuals from Varanasi doctor's protest
OPD services shut in NIMHANS
Though NIMHANS, Bengaluru, is a government hospital, doctors from here are participating in the strike and have shut outpatient services. NIMHANS officials have asked doctors to report to service and have withheld registration for OPD cases. Patients are asked to register only if it is an emergency.
Private hospitals in Bangalore support doctor's protest
Officials from private hospitals and nursing homes association of Karnataka say that they are supporting the strike, but are not encouraging to doctors to go on a protest mode. They, however, say that OPD will be affected today and in-patient services would not be affected. Emergency services would go on as usual. Meanwhile, faculty of Ramaiah hospital including students are planning a silent protest at BEL road. Follow more news from Bangalore here
Assault on anyone is unacceptable: Karanaaka CM H D Kumaraswamy
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy condemns attacks against doctors
10,000 resident doctors from 22 hospitals on strike: Delhi Medical Association
The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) have extended their support to the strike. The Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association India said in a statement that 10,000 resident doctors from 22 hospitals will remain on strike on Monday. Emergency services, it said, will not be hampered. Private hospital administrations said they support the protest and if doctors want to strike work, they can do it at an individual level.
AIIMS joins protest after one of its doctor's assaulted
AIIMS decided to join the protest after a junior doctor at its trauma centre was assaulted in the early hours of Monday. The medico at the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre was allegedly assaulted for "giving preferential care to a critical patient", the Resident Doctors' Association of AIIMS said in a statement. Doctors of the AIIMS also held a protest march in the campus between 8 am and 9 am. "We once again urge the West Bengal administration to fulfil the demands of the striking doctors and resolve the matter amicably at the earliest in the best interest of the general public," a statement issued by the RDA said, adding a meeting of its general body will be held at 6 pm to decide the further course of action.
Dilip Ghosh slams Mamata Banerjee for not visiting protesting doctors at NRS
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh criticised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not paying a visit to the protesting doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital. “She does not have time to visit NRS, but has time to sit on a dharna for IPS officer Rajeev Kumar. She must resolve the present crisis. Patients are suffering because of her ego. They have done no wrong. The doctors, too, need to resume work. They can hold talks with the state government but simultaneously they must provide treatment to the patients,” Ghosh said. “On moral grounds, we are supporting their protest. But that does not mean we can provoke them. But we want normalcy to return as soon as possible. We don’t want the situation to go on forever,” he added
Healthcare services in Delhi likely to be hit as hospitals joins IMA's all-India protest
Doctors at the Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, RML Hospital, as well as Delhi government facilities such as GTB Hospital, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital are joining the IMA strike.
Doctors protest: AIIMS protest march against violence
AIIMS takes outa protest march against the violence in Bengal. "We once again urge the West Bengal administration to fulfil the demands of the striking doctors and resolve the matter amicably at the earliest in the best interest of the general public," a statement issued by the AIIMS RDA said, adding a meeting of its general body will be held at 6 pm again to decide the further course of action.
Bengal doctors strike: Patients bear brunt as docs protest
Although not too many OPD patients have approached hospitals in Bengal in wake of the strike,, relatives of some in-house patients claim that they are suffering because of the deadlock. “My 89-year-old father was having some breathing problem. So, I admitted him to NRS on June 8, three days before the strike began,” said Shyamal Nashkar, who has come from Chakdah. “The hospital has not been able to provide him with proper oxygen facilities and he has stopped responding since Saturday morning. I think I will have to shift him to a private hospital,” he said.
However, there are many such families who support the doctors’ demand. “I support the movement. My mother is in the ICU and she is being taken care of. The demands of the doctors are justified. How can anyone be allowed to beat those who save our lives?” said Moinuddin Sheikh, a Tamluk resident.
Visuals from protests in Rajasthan
Doctors on strike in Jaipur
Keep protest symbolic: Karnataka govt to doctors
Karnataka Health Minister Shivanand S Patil appealed to the doctors in the state to keep "symbolic" their protest to express solidarity with their West Bengal counterparts. In a letter to Karnataka chapter of IMA, which was released to the media, Patil condemned the attack on doctors in West Bengal recently and made a fervent appeal to those in the private and government hospitals in the state not to put ordinary citizens in trouble. "I fervently appeal to the government and private doctors to keep their agitation symbolic without putting patients in trouble. The people of the state will also support you if you keep your agitation symbolic and I believe that you will not put the poor patients of the state in trouble," he said.
Doctors strike: What are IMA's demands?
* The Indian Medical Association which has called for a nationwide strike has demanded a comprehensive central law in dealing with violence on doctors and healthcare staff, and in hospitals.
* Hospitals should be declared as "safe zones". Structured safety measures, including three-layer security, CCTV cameras and restriction of entry of visitors should be well defined and enforced uniformly across the country in all sectors, it said.
* It said to ensure that cases are registered, culprits arrested and conviction assured, mandatory provisions as provided in the POCSO Act should be instituted.
AIIMS to join doctors protest, to go on strike from 12 pm today
In a turn of events, AIIMS which had decided to stay away from the protests will now join the strike. The doctors will go on strike from 12 pm today to 6 am tomorrow. Earlier, the AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) said it would take out a protest march from 8 am to 9 am on Monday, but will refrain from the IMA strike.
Gujarat: Doctors at Vadodara hospital hold protests outside OPD
Doctors at Sir Sayajirao General Hospital hold protests outside the OPD in Gujarat's Vadodara
Why the health care logjam in Bengal was waiting to happen
Bengal has seen over 100 cases of attacks on doctors and medical staff in this year alone. The phenomenon is not new, spilling over from Left front regime to that of the rule of Trinamool Congress. While doctors and medical staff in West Bengal highlight a lack of security in state hospitals and medical colleges, relatives of patients complain of bad behaviour and lack of proper service. Read more
Doctors' strike: AIIMS won’t join protest
While doctors at Safdarjung Hospital and Delhi Medical Association have extended their support to the nationwide stir by IMA in Delhi, the AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) is not participating in the strike. In a statement, the AIIMS RDA said: “It has been decided to resort to a protest wherein patient-care services will not be hampered to ensure that the backlog of patients, including patients affected by the strike, is addressed appropriately.”
All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association, IMA Tripura join protest
Joining the protest in the All Tripura Government Doctors’ Association and IMA Tripura. Except for OPD, all other services will be rendered, Dr S Debbarma, General Secretary, IMA Tripura Unit told news agency ANI
Welcome to The Indian Express live blog. The Indian Medical Association has called for a nationwide stir today in solidarity with the Bengal doctors. A meeting with Mamata Banerjee is also likely today in Bengal. Follow this space to track the latest news