NEET-PG 2021 counselling: Protesting doctors return lab coats, hold march

Intensifying their stir over the delay in NEETPG 2021 counselling scores of resident doctors in Delhi symbolically returned their lab coats and took out a march in the streetsAs the protest continued patient care remained affected at three Centrerun facilities Safdarjung RML and Lady Hardinge hospitals and some of the Delhi governmentrun hospitals The Federation of Resident Doctors Association FORDA has been spearheading the protest for the last several days FORDA president Manish claimed that resident doctors of a large number of major hospitals on Monday returned their apron lab coat in a symbolic gesture of rejection of servicesDelhi Protesting resident doctors of various hospitals march near Safdarjung Hospital over delay in NEETPG counselling pictwittercomSnPyrbIYoCmdash ANI ANI December 27 2021In a statement issued FORDA claimed police brutality and called it a Black day in the history of the medical fraternity It condemned police action and announced that all healthcare institutions would be completely shutdown from today pictwittercomEr2J2xrw5Omdash ANI ANI December 27 2021We also tried to march from the campus of the Maulana Azad Medical College MAMC to Supreme Court but soon after we had started it security personnel did not allow us to proceed he said Manish also alleged that several doctors were detained by police force and taken to police station premises before being released after some timeHe also alleged that police force was used and some of the doctors were injured FORDA in its Twitter handle also showed police personnel and protesters grappling with each other with a police bus seen in the background However police denied any allegations of lathicharge or use of abusive language from their end and said 12 protestors were detained and released later They said for over six to eight hours the protestors blocked the ITO roadRepeated requests were made to them to move away from the spot but they continued to jam the road Later both the carriageways of the ITO Marg were also blocked by the protestors according to the police We spoke to the association members and tried to sort out the issue but they continued to block the roads a police official saidAccording to police while the protestors were being removed from the roads they tried to tear the uniform of the police personnel They even broke the glasses of police vehicle and misbehaved with the forces We returned taali thali and flowers symbolically and burnt diyas and today we also returned our apron which is the symbol of our medical service But we have not heard anything from the government authorities so our protest will continue Manish saidThe association on Saturday had said its members will be forced to go for mass resignation from services if their demands bare not met at the earliest Scores of resident doctors had on Saturday also lit up diyas to register their protest here even as patient care remained affected at various facilities in the cityOn Wednesday a large number of doctors had protested outside the Nirman Bhawan which houses the office of the Union health ministry and then late evening that day they had assembled on the premises of MAMC and lit up diyas and marched around MAMC comes under the Delhi government and three facilities including the LNJP Hospital are attached to itAlso Read Refused FCRA renewal of Missionaries of Charity for not meeting eligibility norms didnt freeze accounts MHALast Tuesday a group of doctors had thrown flowers on security barricades and clanged utensils and clapped in front of the Nirman Bhawan here saying they were symbolically returning the adulation showered on them for being Covid warriorsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever