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AIIMS doctors protest against Bill

Staff Reporter

Threaten action if President approves it

The issue is the passage of the AIIMS (Amendment) Bill, 2007 by Rajya Sabha
The Bill fixes 65 years as the retirement age for the Institute’s head

NEW DELHI: The Resident Doctors’ Association at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here has announced that it will boycott Out-Patient Department services on Thursday in protest against the passage of the AIIMS (Amendment) Bill, 2007, by the Rajya Sabha that fixes 65 years as the retirement age for the head of the premier institute.

AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association president Kumar Harsh said: “We along with support from the technical staff have decided to oppose the Bill. A large section of resident doctors at the Institute will be boycotting OPD services and in case the President gives her approval to the Bill, we will intensify our agitation.”

Supporting the resident doctors, AIIMS Faculty Association president B. K. Khaitan said: “The faculty is observing a ‘Black Day’ on Thursday and we will be having our general body meeting in the afternoon after which we will announce our next course of action.”

The Faculty Association had said that “doctors at the Institute were pained to learn that despite repeated directions to the contrary from the court, the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister had persisted in his single-point agenda of ousting the Institute’s Director P. Venugopal from his post”.

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