Healthcare services at private and government hospitals in the national capital may not be functioning normally as scores of doctors are boycotting work for a day to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in Kolkata.

A complete shutdown of all out patient departments, routine operation theatre services and ward visits, except emergency services in the hospitals is anticipated today, as per various medical bodies of Delhi.

Resident doctors at the AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi worked with bandages on their heads in a symbolic protest on Thursday and called for suspension of all non-emergency services, including OPD, on June 14 to protest against the violence in Kolkata.

The AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association has also urged all the RDAs across the country to join the strike stating that, “there is a complete breakdown of law and order, with reports of mobs attacking doctor hostels with weapons. The government has failed to provide protection and justice to doctors.” The IMA has communicated all its state presidents and secretaries to organize demonstrations in front of the district collectors’ offices from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon today and hand over a memorandum, addressed to the prime minister, to the collectors in every district.