Striking Delhi Doctors Hold Free OPD Outside Health Ministry in Delhi

New Delhi: The striking Resident Doctors Association (RDA) at the AIIMS Delhi has decided to provide elective OPD services outside the Nirman Bhawan, where exists the Union health ministry. They are protesting against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a government medical college and hospital in Kolkata on August 9.

The resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi will continue their strike but will provide free elective OPD services of around 36 specialties to patients outside Nirman Bhawan from 11 am.

Since August 12, these resident doctors are on an indefinite strike, suspending all elective and non-essential services including OPDs.

The AIIMS RDA also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention. They requested people to wear black rakhis on Raksha Bandhan as a symbol of solidarity with healthcare professionals.

A group of Padma Awardee doctors has urgently appealed to President Droupaid Murmu for immediate intervention following the Kolkata incident.

The Supreme Court has taken up the rape-murder case and a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud will hear the matter on Tuesday.

The Calcutta High Court has ordered the CBI to investigate the Kolkata rape-murder case.

The body of the postgraduate trainee doctor was found in the seminar hall of the state-run hospital in Kolkata on August 9. A civic volunteer has been arrested in connection with the crime.