Patients' woes continues as doctors refuse to relent

There have been at least five attacks on resident doctors in the last one week by the disgruntled relatives of the patients.

Medical services continued to remain disrupted in Maharashtra even after the Bombay High Court ordered resident doctors to call off the strike. The high court on Thursday ordered Maharashtra government to provide security to the doctors, who are protesting against recent assaults on their colleagues by patients' relatives.

Maharashtra Resident Doctors Association has said that it is waiting for the written order by the court, following which they will hold a meeting to take the final call on strike.

The MARD had earlier said that they would resume work provided they are given surety of security from the state government.

Amid all this, it was the patients who had to suffer because of long queues at the government hospitals across Maharashtra.

Patients outside KEM hospital in Mumbai

The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the management of government hospitals to take disciplinary action against the striking doctors. The court said contempt action should be taken against the striking doctors.

Resident doctors protesting at Dhule Civil Hospital

Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan on Wednesday warned the doctors of six month's salary cut if they do not resume work.

Docs angered by attack on their collegue

Members of Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) during the second day of their protest against the attack on a doctor in Dhule Civil Hospital, in Nagpur on Tuesday.

Doctors strike at KEM hospital in Mumbai

MARD had demandedtough measures to curb violence against medicos, including limiting the number of relatives who will be permitted to accompany patients.

Agitating doctors at Azad Maidan in Mumbai

Resident doctors protest at the Azad Maidan demanding security after an intern was assaulted by patient's relatives on Tuesday.

(All pics - PTI)

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