4000 Doctors Go On Strike In Maharashtra.
Mumbai: Over 4,000 resident doctors in Maharashtra' govt doctors avoided duty on Monday to show their protests for the incidents of assault on their colleagues, influencing the public healthcare services framework. The issue additionally came up under the watchful eye of the Bombay High Court with an activist filing an appeal seeking an order to the doctors to report back to hospitals as soon as possible. The patients in different government-run hospitals suffered due to this strike. Most of the hospitals, some senior resident doctors took care of the daily health checkups of the patients, according to the authority of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD). MARD also stated that the emergency services were not affected due to the protest. The doctors did not answer to work to protest about the two recently happened incidents — one in Dhule and another at the Sion Hospital in Mumbai — where relatives of patients assaulted the doctors present there. ...