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AIIMS doctors on fast against quotas
Dec 15, 2006 - 8:09:34 PM
Health services in the capital's state-run hospitals were crippled in May when hundreds of doctors took a two-week leave to protest the central government's proposal to reserve 27 percent seats in higher educational institutions across India for other backward classes -.

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[RxPG] New Delhi, Dec 15 - A section of doctors in a leading hospital here are on hunger strike Friday to protest against reservation of seats in educational institutions but pledged not to make life difficult for patients.

Worried over the clearance of the quota bill by the Lok Sabha Thursday, 15 resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences - started the hunger strike in the campus.

'Our protest against injustice will continue. Currently, only 15 doctors are on hunger strike. The situation will be reviewed later,' said Anil Sharma, the representative of resident doctors at AIIMS.

He promised not to let patients suffer.

Sharma said they were in touch with resident doctors of other medical colleges in Delhi and added that 1,200 doctors would meet Friday evening to decide their future course of action.

However, some patients said they were ready for the worst and would leave AIIMS if services got paralysed.

'We know about the problems patients faced in May. We are ready to move out in an emergency,' said Rajesh Kalra from Ghaziabad.

Kalra, whose mother is suffering from kidney problems, said it was better to leave the hospital rather than stay unattended.

Health services in the capital's state-run hospitals were crippled in May when hundreds of doctors took a two-week leave to protest the central government's proposal to reserve 27 percent seats in higher educational institutions across India for other backward classes -.

Nearly 8,000 people avail of medical care at AIIMS every day. Of them, 6,000 are treated through outpatient departments.





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