Delhi: Resident Doctors of three hospitals boycott routine services over NEET-PG Counselling delay. Residents of three Centre-run hospitals boycotted all regular services on Friday, increasing their protest against the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling.
Residents physicians from Ram Manohar Lohia, Safdarjung, and Lady Hardinge hospitals waved banners in support of the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association’s request for a strike (FORDA).
The Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Resident Doctors Association has informed the authorities that unless real steps are made to guarantee that NEET-PG counselling is completed immediately, its doctors may withdraw from emergency services.
“We are forced to boycott all routine services at RML HOSPITAL (OPDs, special clinics, IPDs, Elective OTS) from December 3 till our legitimate issues are not addressed,” the RDA stated, citing the callous attitude of governing entities responsible for the delay in NEET-PG, 2021, counselling.
“All emergency services in the hospital will run as usual. However, if no concrete steps are taken by the stakeholders to ensure immediate completion of NEET-PG Counseling, 2021, we will be forced to take the extreme and harsh decision of shutting down the emergency services as well and complete responsibility will be on administration,” it said.
The RML Resident Doctors Association said that an action plan will be decided after meeting with the national and state RDAs.
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“All stakeholders and administrative agencies are urged to guarantee that the process of introducing new doctors is completed as soon as possible,” the RDA stated. It went on to say that the counselling process should begin as soon as possible to avoid the health-care system collapsing in the face of a possible Covid wave.
The three hospitals’ resident doctors had already withdrew from providing OPD services from November 27 to November 29. The RDA stated that because no action was done in response to the protest, they have decided to suspend all normal services beginning December 3. Emergency services will continue to be provided.
“We like to underline that we are badly understaffed since the PG residents of the 2021 batch have not yet joined,” the Safdarjung Hospital RDA said in an intimation to the medical superintendent as the third wave of Covid approaches.
“Because the suspension of OPD services elicited no tangible response from the authorities, we regret to tell you that we will suspend all regular services on December 3 in solidarity of FORDA’s statewide protest,” it said.
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