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Filmmaker Aparna Sen appeals to 'guardian' Mamata Banerjee to meet striking docs
Award-winning filmmaker and actress Aparna Sen on Friday appealed to Chief Minister West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee to meet striking doctors, to listen and talk to them without any precondition, in order to resolve the ongoing situation."I would like to request the state chief minister to please come here and talk to the junior doctors. If you felt bad with someone's behavior, please forgive them. They are small children and future doctors, being elder to them, you should come here and talk to them. You head the health ministry. As a guardian why are you not visiting them?" Sen said.The veteran actress made this statement during a visit to Nil Ratan Sarkar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata to meet doctors who struck work after an intern doctor was allegedly assaulted by relatives of a patient who died on June 10.Sen also asked whether it would be good for the state if the doctors left West Bengal?"Don't you think that you should come here and talk to these junior doctors? My .
Harsh Vardhan appeals to doctors to end their strike
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday urged the agitating doctors to end their strike and appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to withdraw her ultimatum against the doctors in her state, which triggered strikes across the country.
Doctors in Raj wear black bands, helmets in protest against attack on colleagues in West Bengal
Doctors at the SMS government hospital here wore black bands and helmets to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in West Bengal. Indian Medical Association's (IMA) state general secretary Dr V K Jain said resident doctors were seen wearing black bands and helmets while discharging their duties in outdoor unit of the SMS hospital here. Jain said doctors in other districts of the state also took part in the token protest. "The protest is over rising violence against doctors. Concrete action should be taken against such attacks," he said. Junior doctors in West Bengal have been agitating since Tuesday demanding security for themselves in government hospitals, after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at the NRS Medical College and Hospital.
Chhattisgarh doctors support striking Bengal counterparts
Doctors at major government-run hospitals in Chhattisgarh staged protests Friday in solidarity with the ongoing agitation by junior doctors in West Bengal against assault on their colleagues in the eastern state. Around 400 junior doctors of Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Hospital, Raipur - the biggest government hospital in the state - staged a protest from 8 am to 2 pm in premises of the medical facility. As part of the protest, they stayed away from attending out-patient departments (OPDs) and operation theaters (OTs), Bhagwati Chandra Verma, president, Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) here, told PTI. Holding posters and placards, the protesting doctors raised slogans in support of the agitating physicians in West Bengal and their demands, he said. However, emergency services were unaffected due to the protest, Verma said. Senior doctors of the hospital did not take part in the stir, but attended their work wearing black bandages as a mark of support to their junior ...
Doctors in UP wear black band in solidarity with protesting colleagues in West Bengal
Government doctors in Uttar Pradesh Friday wore black band to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in West Bengal. Dr Amit Singh, the general secretary of Provincial Medical Services Association UP, said, "Government doctors wore black bands while discharging their duties at various hospitals in the state. In the afternoon, a delegation of the doctors submitted a memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister through the district magistrate." In the memorandum, "we have demanded security for doctors so that they do not feel scared". He added that more than 18,700 doctors associated with the Provincial Medical Services Association UP took part in the protest. Junior doctors in West Bengal are on a strike since Tuesday after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
No shame in saying sorry, Mamata should apologise to doctors:
Asserting that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should have been humble in her approach at the SSKM hospital, actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen on Friday insisted that the TMC supremo should apologise to the agitating doctors for the alleged threats she issued to them. Sen urged the chief minister to listen to the grievances of the junior doctors patiently. "Mamata Banerjee has done so much for Bengal, but I am sorry to say that I do not support the way she spoke to the doctors. She must have spoken to them humbly because threats do not get anything done. "There is no harm or no shame in saying sorry... That will not hamper her popularity," Sen told PTI. The filmmaker appealed to Banerjee to talk to the junior doctors face-to-face and end the impasse. "The chief minister is the guardian of the state. She is not just the guardian of the patients waiting outside, but also of those young brilliant doctors who are working day in day out throughout the year. "I think, all she needs to .
Spend more on education, hygiene, woman safety: social sector experts to FM
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should focus on education, hygiene, woman safety, nutrition of infants in the forthcoming budget, suggested social sector experts in their pre-budget meeting. They also asked the minister to levy higher taxation on sweetened and salted products, rationalise taxes on medical devices, and earmark funds for healthcare infrastructure, and providing free drugs as well as diagnostic facilities. Sitharaman, in her opening remarks, said that the present government is committed to improve the educational standards, skilling the youth, enhancing job opportunities, reducing disease burden, empowering women and improving human development in order to have an inclusive development. The main areas of discussion included issues relating to health, education, social protection, pensions and human development. The stakeholders of social sector gave suggestions like focus on education and hygiene particularly for rural women, audit of cities to identify security gaps
Maha resident docs on 1-day strike in support of WB doctors
Around 4,500 resident doctors in Maharashtra, including some 2,800 in Mumbai, went on a one-day strike Friday in solidarity with the ongoing agitation of junior doctors in West Bengal. The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) said junior doctors at government hospitals in the state will not perform surgeries or attend to out-patient departments (OPDs) between 8 am and 5 pm Friday. However, emergency services will not be affected, it said. "We will not be treating any patients in routine OPDs or carry out surgeries or take rounds of wards. Doctors posted on emergency duties will not participate in the protest," a resident doctor, who is a member of MARD, said. Junior doctors in West Bengal are on strike since Tuesday demanding better security at workplace after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at the hospital. The Indian Medical Association has ...
Bengal doctors opt for mass resignation
In the wake of cease-work at state-run hospitals in West Bengal, doctors of four Medical colleges on Friday submitted mass resignations.
Aparna Sen appeals to 'Ma' Mamata as doctors strike worsens
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is like a "guardian", a "mother", said renowned actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen as she appealed to the Trinamool chief to "change her stance a bit" and take a more humane view of the threats faced by doctors.
Vardhan urges docs to resume work, appeals to WB CM to put 'amicable end' to stir
In the wake of protests by the medical fraternity in support of agitating doctors in Kolkata, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Friday urged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to not make this sensitive matter a "prestige issue" while asking her to ensure an "amicable end" to the stir. In a letter to Banerjee, the Union minister urged her to ensure an "amicable end" to the protests and provide a secure working environment for doctors. He also appealed to the agitating doctors, particularly in West Bengal, to hold symbolic protests and resume work so that patients do not suffer. "Doctors should resort to other simple and symbolic ways of protest. As medical professionals, their duty is towards protecting the rights of their patients. Strike is certainly not the best way to protest. Patients should not be deprived of immediate and emergency healthcare facilities," the Union health minister said. Junior doctors in West Bengal are on a strike since Tuesday after two of their ...
Doctors protest in Goa, services at GMCH hit partially
The services at the state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) and its facilities across the state were partially affected Friday as several doctors went on a one-day strike in solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal. The protest was part of the nationwide strike call given by medical associations after a patient's relatives assaulted two junior doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. The doctors are pressing for more stringent laws to protect them from such assaults. The Goa Association of Resident Doctors (GARD) president Veeresh HM said a majority of doctors participated in the protest. "We demand immediate arrest of all perpetrators involved (in the attack on doctors at Kolkata hospital) and a formal apology from the Chief Minister of West Bengal for her actions related to the incident," he said in a release. Medical services in Goa were not paralysed as senior doctors were attending to patients, he said. The doctors attached to the ..
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Medicos go on token strike in Kerala demanding stipend hike
: Over 3,500 junior doctors, including post-graduate medical students and house surgeons, in state-run medical colleges across Kerala went on a one-day token strike on Friday demanding hike in stipends. The mass boycott of work by the medicos affected out-patient and in-patient services and other normal functions of the nine government medical colleges in the state. However, services at the casualty ward and ICU were exempted from the strike, hospital sources said. Raising slogans and holding banners and placards, the striking junior doctors also carried out a march to the Directorate of Medical Education here. They said the stipend had not been revised for the last four years even if the medical fees was hiked in the state. "We are demanding a decent stipend. Other states have already increased the stipend and Kerala is yet to give it... This is just a token strike. If our demand is not considered favourably, we will go on an indefinite strike from June 20," striking ...
PGIMER doctors protest over Kolkata hospital violence
Over 1,200 resident doctors at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here held a demonstration to express solidarity with their protesting counterparts in Kolkata. The functioning of the OPDs was partially hit due to the protest. However, Dr Uttam Kumar Thakur, president of the Association of Resident Doctors at the PGIMER, said all emergency services functioned normally and the on-duty doctors did not join the protest. The protest lasted for five hours from 8 am to 1 pm and the doctors returned to work after it, he said. Doctors in West Bengal are protesting since Tuesday against an attack on two of their colleagues by a mob following the death of a patient at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Resident doctors at government hospitals in Punjab and Haryana too wore black ribbons during the working hours to protest the Kolkata incident. At the Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala, a demonstration was held. Similar protests were reported
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Odisha docs hold protest in support of agitating doctors in
As a mark of solidarity towards their protesting colleagues in West Bengal, junior doctors in Odisha Friday staged dharna with bandages on their foreheads, besides staying away from duty. Members of the Resident Doctors Association (RDA), AIIMS, Bhubaneswar went on a ceasework protesting the attack on two junior doctors in the neighbouring state. Above 250 junior doctors sat on dharna with bandages on their foreheads and did not join duty, including the outpatient department (OPD). "The ceasework by the resident doctors has affected the health service at AIIMS here. The strike is for one day as a mark of solidarity towards the agitating doctors in West Bengal," a senior doctor at the AIIMS said. The Residents' Doctor Association, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar said in a press release, that it was disheartened and saddened at the grievous crime against the medical fraternity of West Bengal. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has directed the members of all its state branches to ...
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Doctors in Coimbatore stage dharna against Kolkata hospital violence
Over 100 doctors Friday staged a dharna in front of the government hospital here to protest against the assault of a junior doctor in Kolkata. The doctors, including women, belonging to the local chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association raised slogans against the attack on junior doctors at a Kolkata hospital allegedly by relatives of a patient, who died at the hospital, and sought protection of the medical fraternity in the country. Holding placards such as "zero tolerance", they said doctors were living dangerously without any safety and would continue their protests till safety was ensured at workplace. The IMA had directed members of all its state branches to stage protests and wear black badges on Friday. Junior doctors in West Bengal are on strike since Tuesday demanding better security at workplace after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata allegedly by ...
Delhi: Ganga Ram Hospital doctors shut OPD facility for a day
Doctors at Ganga Ram Hospital on Friday shut OPD facility in solidarity with the striking West Bengal medicos, who are protesting against violence against some doctors in Kolkata."All doctors of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital are fully in support of our colleagues in West Bengal and strongly protest against the growing tendency of violence against doctors. As a support of our solidarity, all private OPD clinics at the hospital will remain closed today," said a press release from the Doctors Forum in the hospital.Junior doctors in Kolkata have been on strike after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured over an issue of alleged negligence at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday.