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Sixty percent of Indian doctors are women. This percentage is as high as 68% in the dental profession, 75% in physiotherapy and 85% in nursing. All health care professionals deserve a peaceful ambiance, safety, and security at workplace. We are appealing for your benign intervention to ensure appropriate measures to meet our demands,
Doctors stand united against this injustice. Across all the sectors whether it’s private, government, or corporate doctors are in protest,
We appreciate your remarks about the safety of women in your Independence Day address. We appeal to you for your benign intervention at this stage. This will give confidence to not only women doctors but also to every woman in the workplace,
read the letter signed by RV Asokan, national president, IMA, and Anilkumar J Nayak, honorary secretary general This was one of the most successful medical shutdown calls,
said Dr MM Paliwal, the president of IMA’s UP chapter My mother has a serious condition, she needs blood transfusion, but I am running from pillar to post and there is no doctor. I am afraid I will lose her”.
Tarachand Yadav, who arrived at Government Medical College and Hospital, Purnea, Bihar, with his mother said The OPD is closed. We are allowing only those patients who need consultation on an emergency basis,
said an official of a private hospital along EM Bypass in Kolkata I am suffering from chest pain and doctors in my native district, Bahraich, referred me to Lari Cardiology Centre at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow. However, despite waiting till noon I could not see a doctor,
said Sudama (single name), 55, who said he would come back to the city on Monday The emergency services like casualty and intensive care units functioned,
said a senior official in the hospital, requesting anonymity I don’t want to be the next victim,
read placards carried by several women doctors who were part of a march in the national capital’s central district The culprit should be hanged. There is no place for such barbaric individuals in a civilised society."
At the protest, Congress state general secretary Meena Sharma demanded that the case be tried in a fast-track court, asserting My sister was already divorced and was struggling to raise her 11-year-old daughter. Her daughter has gone into depression since her mother’s murder. The culprit must receive the death penalty so that no one dares to commit such a heinous act again,
the victim’s sister stated, as quoted by TOI Doctors, including women medicos, work long hours at hospitals, and if we are denied complete security, how can we work? In this Kolkata rape and murder case, the shocking factor is that the state government is not coming clean, and its police appear to be damaging evidence. We are puzzled as to whom we should lodge a complaint,
said Dr Sandhya Jain, a consulting pathologist in Agra participating in the protest Just the other day, an angry relative of a patient slapped a female guard,
said Gopal Bisht, a security supervisor at Delhi's Lady Hardinge Hospital And after that, there is no proper place to rest,
she said, describing how doctors took breaks in "wheelchairs and stretchers". We just want to be safe while we are doing our duty,
said Sapna Rani, a 27-year-old woman doctor in the capital New Delhi who took part in a 24-hour nationwide strike by medics What happened in Kolkata was not a one-off incident,
said Pankhuri Sharma, 24, a doctor-in-training at a state-run hospital in Delhi We have submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel with a list of demands, including an increase in security, making hospitals safe zones with CCTV cameras and enhanced security personnel so that doctors can work in a safe environment without fear,
Desai later told reporters We also demand security in government hospitals. We are not happy with the security in emergency wards at the hospital, especially for the staff on night duty,
Following a meeting of teachers and medical officers' association, we resolved to support the nationwide withdrawal of patient care services for 24 hours from 6 am of Saturday to protest the fatal assault on a postgraduate student of RG Kar Medical College." ... Emergency services will continue as usual,
In a statement, RIMS said ... it added The cease work will continue for 24 hours,