Resident Doctors At AIIMS Delhi To Provide Elective OPDs Amid Protests

New Delhi: Amid the growing nationwide protests against the brutal and gruesome rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Medical college, the Resident Doctors Association of Delhi AIIMS on Sunday said that they and other Delhi Hospitals will be providing free OPD services on the road in front of the Health Ministry at Nirman Bhawan from August 19, till doctors are assured of adequate security in hospitals through a Central Protection Act.

Meanwhile, the doctors’ strike in the national capital entered its seventh day on Sunday, as non-emergency services, including OPD, remained paralysed. The agitation kick started on Monday in Delhi. Initially restricted to medical college campuses, doctors started taking to the streets from Friday over the incident at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata earlier this month.

According to an action plan, members of resident doctors’ associations (RDA) in Delhi took out a candle light march from outside Gate 1 of the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station at Connaught Place.