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AIIMS staff observe `Black Day'

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NEW DELHI: Faculty, resident doctors, students, nurses and other employees at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here observed "Black Day" on Monday in protest against the hike in "user charges".

While patient care and routine work was not hampered, the protesting employee wore black bands during work hours.

"There is stiff administrative resistance to revoking user charges despite widespread opposition to their use within all sections of AIIMS," said the president of the Faculty Association of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (FAIIMS), A.B. Dey.

Asserting that reasons for opposing the user charges were many, he added: "AIIMS administration in its various statements has tried to depict that the right of the poor has been protected. This, however, is not the case. Most of the poor patients come to AIIMS without a Below Poverty Line cards from far away places and are turned away because they don't have adequate paper work."

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