Doctors across the country on Tuesday continued their protest against the rape and murder of a woman doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.Elective services in government hospitals in Delhi remained shut as the resident doctors’ strike entered its second day.Resident doctors in Maharashtra began an indefinite strike this morning in support of the nationwide protests. All elective services in hospitals across the state have been halted, but emergency services will continue uninterrupted, Maharashtra State Association of Resident Doctors (Central-MARD) President Dr. Pratik Debaje told PTI.”From 9 am, we have stopped work at all OPDs (out-patient departments) and elective services. Only emergency services are operational across the state,” Dr. Debaje said.The resident doctors’ body said on Monday that the decision to halt work was not easy but necessary to ensure their demands were met. It also urged local MARD units in Maharashtra to join the stir.Similarly, junior doctors at the state-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi on Tuesday started a ‘pen-down’ agitation, boycotting OPD services and elective surgeries. However, they continued to attend to emergency services.The agitating doctors demanded a CBI probe into the rape and murder of the woman doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.”Around 200 doctors have joined the agitation, and senior resident doctors have also supported our stir. Our protest excludes emergency services as we do not want any patient in need to suffer,” Ankit Kumar, President of the Junior Doctors’ Association (JDA) at RIMS, told PTI.Notably, resident doctors of government hospitals in several parts of the country went on an indefinite strike on Monday to protest against the incident, paralysing services such as OPDs and non-emergency surgeries.
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