Centre asks states to ensure security for doctors

With resident doctors across Maharashtra continuing their strike for the fourth day demanding enhanced security, the Centre today directed states to take proactive measures to ensure their safety.
Union Health Minister J P Nadda also appealed to the sriking doctors to resume their services.
"Deeply concerned about security issues relating to doctors. I would request state governments to take proactive measure to ensure their security.
"I would also urge upon the doctors to continue to provide their best services to the people, so that they don't suffer," Nadda tweeted.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today appealed to the resident doctors in the state to call off their strike and assured them that the government would ensure their security in hospital.

The Bombay High Court directed them to resume work immediately and said their issues and demands can be amicably resolved with the state government.

Nearly 4,000 resident doctors have been striking since Monday, demanding enhanced security, in the wake of a string of attacks on doctors by patients' relatives at government hospitals across the state.
The protests have been hampering the services of Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) in various hospitals.
Last night, a woman doctor of the civic-run Sion hospital here was allegedly beaten up by the relatives of a patient, which made the stand of the protesting medicos more aggressive.

The civic-run KEM Hospital in Mumbai has started issuing suspension notices to the doctors who did not report to duty despite state Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan asking them to resume work by last evening.
Over 40,000 resident doctors of government hospitals in the national capital under The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) had yesterday said they will go on casual leave en masse today in support of their counterparts in Maharashtra who are on strike.