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Doctors strike work in support of agitating students

Staff Reporter

Routine and emergency services in several hospitals severely affected

NEW DELHI: Medical colleges and affiliated hospitals in the Capital went on a 24-hour token strike beginning Friday afternoon in support of the agitating medical students who held a protest demonstration during the day against the proposed move to provide 27 per cent reservation to Other Backward Classes in Central universities and institutes of higher learning.

Routine medical and emergency services in several Delhi hospitals, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sucheta Kripalani and Lok Nayak Hospitals, were severely affected as doctors struck work in support of the agitating students.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has pledged full support to the agitating medical students and has given a call to all Delhi hospitals, medical colleges and private practitioners to observe a daylong strike this coming Monday.

The strike will exclude emergency services.

The Association on Friday wrote to the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Delhi Police Commissioner K. K. Paul asking them "to ensure that protesting medical students who were detained were released immediately and unconditionally''.

At a press conference here, IMA national president Sanjiv Malik said the medical community was shocked to see how the police brutally handled a peaceful rally taken out by the students on Friday.

"In a democratic society, every section has the right to express their views and it is the moral duty of the Government to hear every viewpoint. The way police authorities were asked to handle Friday's peaceful demonstration reminds one of the British Raj, when force was used to crush the people's voice. The IMA cannot be a silent spectator to the manner in which the situation was handled on Friday,'' added Dr. Malik.

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