Doctors go on strike against longer duration MBBS course plan
New Delhi: Senior resident doctors and medical students of top Delhi hospitals, including AIIMS, went on strike on Thursday leading to closure of OPDs, demanding revision of the recently cleared proposal of the MBBS course structure. Only the emergency services will be available in the hospitals which is likely to cause distress for the patients. Doctors from AIIMS, Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, Safdarjung hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Ram Manohar Lohiya hospital have gone on a strike and joined the medical students who are protesting outside the Health ministry’s office at Nirman Bhavan demanding revision of the proposed MBBS course structure. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is expected to meet them but if their demands are not met, the doctors threatened to go on a indefinite strike. Senior Resident Doctors’ Association of AIIMS on Thursday gave the notice to the Medical Superintendent, informing him about the latest development, sources said. The RDA had officially extended their support to the AIIMS Students’ Union in the protest, on Wednesday evening. The protest is against the Health ministry’s recently cleared proposal for increasing the duration of MBBS course from existing 5.5 years to 6.5 years with an addition of a compulsory one-year rural posting for admission into postgraduate programmes. The students are demanding that the compulsory one year rural posting be either incorporated within the existing MBBS course structure or included as part of the PG curriculum. (PTI)
Student killed by Haryana Roadways bus, friends go on rampage
Hisar: A college student died on Thursday after he came under the wheels of a Haryana Roadways bus, following which his friends set another bus on fire, damaged several others and blocked the Hisar-Sirsa National Highway here. Sandeep (19) came under the wheels of the bus when he was trying to board it on Kajla-Durjanpur road, while on his way to his college in Adampur, police said. Soon after the accident, a number of students blocked the national highway and set another Haryana Roadways bus on fire in protest against the student’s death. They also pelted stones at other buses and damaged several of them, they said. The Hisar Superintendent of Police rushed to the spot along with other senior police officers and pacified the students to withdraw the blockade. Police assured the agitating students that a case would be registered against the bus driver and he would be arrested soon. Following the assurances, the students withdrew the blockade. (PTI)