Maharashtra Govt urges resident doctors to call off strike

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 Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde on Thursday appealed to the resident doctors of Government medical colleges to call off their indefinite strike, saying most of their demands have been accepted.“No one will be allowed to imperil patients’ lives,” the Minister said, talking to media.
Additional Chief Secretary (medical education) Medha Gadgil had spoken to deans of all the Government hospitals and she was told that the strike had not affected the medical services, he said.Tawde said that resident doctors wanted ‘bouncers’ at the hospitals to protect them (from irate relatives of patients who sometimes assault doctors). “We have decided to put up flex boards on Doctors Protection Act in casualty, ICU and labour wards and adequate provisions for foolproof security for doctors are being made,” the Minister said.
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