HP Resident doctors keep away from work

Shimla, Nov 14 (UNI) Medical services in Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and Kamla Nehru Hospital (KNH) in Shimla town of Himachal Pradesh were affected today following the resident doctors' decision to go on mass leave in support of their demands.

The resident doctors association had decided to go on a mass leave, demanding withdrawal of cases against its office bearers during the anti-reservation strike and hike in stipend for post graduate, housesurgeons and interns beside other demands.

In the absence of resident doctors, the hospital authorities had deputed senior doctors and interns to maintain health services in the hospitals.

Patients waited for hours in queues for their turn to get themselves checked by senior doctors and interns who were made to run the OPDs today.

The resident doctors are demanding increments to the specialist doctors of IGMC and Tanda Medical College at Tanda on the lines being provided to doctors in other district, besides resumption of winter and summer vacations to registrars working in the state medical college.

Resident Doctors Association (RDA) President Rajesh Sood warned that unless the state government accepted its demands, it would resort to indefinite hunger strike or indefinite strike.

The general body meeting (GMB) of the association has been called on next Monday (November 20) to decide its future course of action, he told UNI here.

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