Kolkata doctors’ assault: MARD to suspend ‘healthcare’ on June 14

Kolkata doctors’ assault: MARD to suspend ‘healthcare’ on June 14

Patients at the civic and state-run hospitals across Maharashtra will have problems, as the Central MARD (Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors) have decided to shut all outpatients departments.

Staff ReporterUpdated: Friday, June 14, 2019, 07:33 AM IST
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Mumbai: Patients at the civic and state-run hospitals across Maharashtra will have problems, as the Central MARD (Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors) have decided to shut all outpatients departments (OPDs), wards and academic services from 8am to 5pm on June 14 across the state.

This comes after junior doctors in Kolkata were brutally assaulted by a mob of around 200 due to which Central MARD and Indian Medical Association (IMA) have extended their support and will observe a protest to condemn the distressing and brutal incident.

In its letter, MARD has called for a pan-Maharashtra agitation stating, “Central MARD Maharashtra strongly condemns the distressing and brutal incident of assault on junior doctors and interns on duty at NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata on June 11 followed by similar incidences in other colleges in West Bengal.

This is an intimation letter regarding pan-Maharashtra agitation by Central MARD in support of interns and residents of West Bengal, who were harmed during an assault by a 200-strong mob.”

The doctors will wear a black ribbon around their hands, shout slogans and hold streetplays, and will shut OPDs, wards and academic services from 8am to 5pm. “Only emergency services (casualty and emergency OTs) will remain open with a small team,” said a doctor.

Dr Kalyani Dongre, the president of MARD, said they have called for a protest to raise their concern of safety and security. It would be a peaceful protest in which slogans will be raised, street play conducted, and will wear a black ribbon.

“Taking this step is necessary as it is a need of the hour to ensure that a central Act like Hospital Violence Act is introduced so that stringent punishment is meted out to those who attack doctors. Moreover, the security guards are not even trained to protect doctors from such unruly mobs.”

Even the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has decided to join the protest, a professor and head of the unit at Grant Medical College and JJ Group of the hospital, too, is observing a strike to support the central MARD and IMA decision to condemn the attack.

“Such attacks on doctors need to stop. As seniors, we need the future of medics to be safe and secured, rather people assaulting and abusing the juniors,” said Parthiv Sanghvi, ex-president, IMA.

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