NEET-PG counselling: Resident doctors resume strike after demand not fulfilled

After a brief lull resident doctors of the three Centrerun hospitals in Delhi resumed their strike on Friday and boycotted all services including emergency over the delay in NEETPG 2021 counsellingThe resident doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia Safdarjung and Lady Hardinge hospitals said they resumed the strike as the government had made a fake promiseThey pointed out the acute shortage of resident doctors across the country as the counselling of NEET PG 2021 batch has already been delayed by eight monthsOn December 9 the resident doctors had said they were suspending the agitation called by the Federation of Resident Doctors Association FORDA for a week following the health ministrys assurance to expedite court hearing and subsequently fasttrack the counselling processHowever on Wednesday FORDA wrote to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informing him that it was resuming the strikeThe plight of overburdened and exhausted resident doctors seems to have fallen on deaf ears of the authorities who do not seem to be concerned about the shortage of healthcare workforce due to nonadmission of fresh batch of resident doctorsWith the threat of third wave of COVID19 looming large the best the authorities could have done was to expedite the counselling and subsequent admission process instead there is inaction and lack of urgency in the matter Hence as informed earlier resident doctors are left with no choice but to go for withdrawal from all services routine as well as emergency in healthcare institutions 17th December 2021 onwards The onus of this unfortunate situation affecting healthcare services is on the authorities FORDAs letter readFunctionaries of Safdarjung Hospitals Resident Doctors Association had in a letter on Wednesday said they had been waiting patiently since the agitation was put on hold However once again no action was taken by the ministry since one week which is in stark contrast to its fake promises and false assurances the letter readWith the imminent threat of third wave of COVID 19 it is evident from the lackadaisical and ignorant attitude of the authorities that the healthcare plight of overburdened doctors and suffering of poor patients is not of any importance to them at all the letter statedDr Sunil Duchania RDA president at Lady Hardinge Medical College said the authorities concerned do not seem to be concerned about the shortage of force in heathcareDue to the irresponsible behaviour the academic year of 45000 NEET PG aspirants is almost wasted with the superadded ripple effect of shortage of resident doctors to combat the impending third wave of COVID19 in all hospitals across the nation Dr Anuj Aggarwal general secretary of Safdarjung RDA saidThis 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