KEY STORY
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemning the alleged ‘police brutality’ on resident doctors in the national capital over the delay in National Eligibility Entrance Test postgraduate (NEET PG) counselling 2021.
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Several resident doctors across India began a protest march on Monday and continued their agitation even today and warned to pull back “all healthcare services” from Wednesday.
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“Doctors have been protesting for several days. These are the people who risked their lives during the Covid-19 outbreak to serve citizens. The pandemic is still raging. They should be in hospitals and not on the streets. We strongly condemn the police brutality inflicted on them. I request the Prime Minister to accept their demands at the earliest,” Kejriwal said in his tweet.
केंद्र के डॉक्टर कई दिनों से हड़ताल पर हैं। इन्होंने कोरोना में अपनी जान की बाज़ी लगाकर सेवा की। कोरोना फिर बढ़ रहा है। इन्हें अस्पताल में होना चाहिए, ना कि सड़कों पर
इन पर जो पुलिस बर्बरता की गई, हम उसकी कड़ी निंदा करते हैं। PM साहिब इनकी माँगे जल्द मानें। PM को मेरा पत्र pic.twitter.com/yE5waHecAz
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 28, 2021
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The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has called for complete pull out from all healthcare services across India from 8 am on December 29 “in protest against brute force by Delhi Police against doctors”.
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The protest comes at a time when India is grappling with a resurgent Covid-19 outbreak due to the Omicron variant, which is reportedly resistant to the vaccine and has a spike protein worse than the Delta strain that wreaked havoc across the country during the second wave of the pandemic from April-June this year.
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The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has called for complete pull out from all healthcare services across India from 8 am on December 29 “in protest against brute force by Delhi Police against doctors”.
CONCLUSION
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya met representatives of the protesting doctors at Nirman Bhavan in Delhi today and requested them to call off their strike “in public interest”.
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Doctors have also sought an official apology from the Delhi Police over their “stern action” during Monday’s march to Supreme Court.
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“We want respect. This is now our foremost demand. We want an apology from the police over their brutality on our fellow doctors,” a protesting doctor told news agency IANS.
