The Union Health Minister expressed regret for any misbehavior on part of the police and requested resident doctors to rejoin work amid rising COVID cases, but the Doctors from Hindu Rao and Kasturba hospitals have decided to support the resident doctors protesting against the delay in NEET PG Counselling 2021 and withdraw their services with immediate effect. 

The resident doctors’ association wrote a letter to the Hindu Rao Hospital medical superintendent, stating their support against the violence towards the resident doctors who were marching peacefully to the Supreme Court and withdrawing all services, including emergency.

Tanuraj Tyagi, the president of the resident doctors’ association of Hindu Rao said that the resident doctors were under great stress due to the counseling delay. Sunil Kumar, president of the Kasturba hospital resident doctors’ association, also supported the protest in a similar letter stating withdrawal from all services, including emergency.  

Several small hospitals supported the protesting resident doctors after the doctors were manhandled by the police on Monday. Resident doctors from across different medical college-associated hospitals in Delhi as well as from other states reached Safdarjung hospital on Tuesday morning, amid heavy police deployment. All the gates of the hospital were also barricaded.

Source: India.com