Patients will face a tough time at the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital as resident doctors have decided go on a full-day strike from tomorrow. Resident doctors have been boycotting routine services for two hours over the last two days to protest the delay in NEET PG Counselling, 2021.
“We have been boycotting routine services for two hours over the last two days. Since there has been no visible initiative by the government to expedite the counselling process, we have decided to escalate our agitation and go on an indefinite full-day strike,” said an official of the Resident Doctors Association, IGMC.
With the footfall of over 2,000 OPD patients at the IGMC every day, the RDA’s decision is going to cause a lot of inconvenience to the patients coming to the hospital from various parts of the state. Even the two-hour strike for the two days had caused much inconvenience to the patients; the whole-day strike will hit the patients hard.
The RDA said the emergency services would not be affected by the strike. Justifying the decision to go on strike, the RDA spokesperson said, “We are working round the clock for the patients, but the delay in counselling is testing our patience”.
