AIIMS doctors to wear black ribbons at work to show solidarity with agitating medics on NEET PG Counselling
New Delhi, December 7 : The Residents Doctors Association of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has come out in support of the ongoing agitation by junior doctors across the country, who are demanding to expedite the counseling of NEET PG qualifiers.
The association, although not joining the strike, will protest symbolically by wearing black ribbons while at work in a show of solidarity.
AIIMS doctors said that admission of doctors through NEET PG 2021 counselling was prudent as the threat of new variants of Covid-19 kept emerging.
They also said that the delay in counselling was depriving the citizens from the services of 42,000 doctors, who would have joined the hospitals six months ago.
“Around 42,000 MBBS doctors are waiting for admissions to respective courses through NEET PG 2021 Counselling. Several hospitals are functioning with just two-third capacity of their total resident-doctors strength. As cases of the new variants of Covid-19 are increasing exponentially globally, it is prudent that our nation should be prepared for another wave of the ongoing pandemic,” said a statement issued by the RDA AIIMS.
Resident doctors at AIIMS will be working with black ribbons to support the cause of the over-burdened resident doctors of the country, it announced.
Resident doctors of the Centre-run RML, Safdarjung and Lady Hardinge hospitals in Delhi and from state-run hospitals across India have boycotted all routine and emergency services from Monday, in support of a nationwide protest called by the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) against the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling.
Expressing concern over manpower shortage in the health care scenario, especially with the impending third wave, and amid detection of cases of Omicron variant, the FORDA said it was disastrous to note the postponement of NEET PG admission in medical colleges.
“In the first wave of Covid-19, we lacked experience, In the second wave, India did not have Oxygen, now if the third wave comes, the country will not have enough doctors to support medical infrastructure. Expedition of NEET PG counselling is of paramount importance for the well-being and health of the nation in the face of dynamic situation the Covid-19 pandemic keeps evolving,” President of FORDA, Dr Manish told UNI.(UNI)
