New Delhi Dec 18 PTI Patient care services were affected for the second consecutive day on Saturday as resident doctors of three Centre-run hospitals boycotted all services including emergency as part of a nationwide protest called by FORDA over NEET-PG 2021 counselling delay Resident doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia Safdarjung and Lady Hardinge hospitals had resumed the strike on Friday saying the government allegedly made a fake promise They pointed out the acute shortage of resident doctors across the country as the counselling of NEET-PG 2021 batch has already been delayed by eight months On December 9 the resident doctors had said they were suspending the agitation called by the Federation of Resident Doctors Association FORDA for a week following the health ministrys assurance to expedite court hearing and subsequently fast-track the counselling process However on Wednesday FORDA wrote to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informing him that it was resuming the strike from December 17 The plight of overburdened and exhausted resident doctors seems to have fallen on deaf ears of the authorities who do not seem to be concerned about the shortage of healthcare workforce due to non-admission of fresh batch of resident doctors With the threat of third wave of COVID-19 looming large the best the authorities could have done was to expedite the counselling and subsequent admission process - instead there is inaction and lack of urgency in the matter it said Hence as informed earlier resident doctors are left with no choice but to go for withdrawal from all services routine as well as emergency in healthcare institutions 17th December 2021 onwards The onus of this unfortunate situation affecting healthcare services is on the authorities FORDAs letter read FORDA president Dr Manish said the three Centre-run facilities and resident doctors of Maulana Azad Medical College MAMC have resumed the protest and an appeal has been issued to other RDAs across the country to again join the stir Meanwhile in a statement FORDA alleged that doctors in multiple healthcare institutions are being threatened in various ways to abstain from the agitation Akash Yadav vice-president Resident Doctors Association of Delhi government-run MAMC on Saturday said resident doctors of the hospital too had resumed their stir from Friday morning and boycotted all routine and emergency services affecting patient care services Loknayak Jaiprakash Hospital GB Pant Hospital and Guru Nanak Eye Centre are attached with MAMC LNJP is the biggest facility in the city run by the Delhi government and the nerve centre of its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic PTI PLB KND SRY

New Delhi Dec 17 PTI After a brief lull resident doctors of the three Centre-run hospitals in Delhi resumed their strike on Friday and boycotted all services including emergency over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling The resident doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia Safdarjung and Lady Hardinge hospitals said they resumed the strike as the government had made a fake promise They pointed out the acute shortage of resident doctors across the country as the counselling of NEET PG 2021 batch has already been delayed by eight monthsOn December 9 the resident doctors had said they were suspending the agitation called by the Federation of Resident Doctors Association FORDA for a week following the health ministrys assurance to expedite court hearing and subsequently fast-track the counselling process However onWednesday FORDA wrote to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informing him that it was resuming the strike The plight of overburdened and exhausted resident doctors seems to have fallenon deaf ears of the authorities who do not seem to be concerned about the shortage of healthcare workforce due to non-admission of fresh batch of resident doctors With thethreat of thirdwave of COVID-19 looming large the best the authorities couldhave done was to expedite the counselling and subsequent admission process - instead there is inaction andlack of urgency in the matter Hence as informed earlier residentdoctors are left with no choice but to go for withdrawal from all services routineas well as emergency in healthcare institutions 17th December 2021 onwards The onus of this unfortunate situation affecting healthcare services is on the authorities FORDAs letter read Functionaries of Safdarjung Hospitals Resident Doctors Association had in a letter on Wednesday said they had been waiting patiently since the agitation was put on hold However once again no action was taken by the ministry since one week which is in stark contrast to its fake promises and false assurances the letter read With the imminent threat of third wave of COVID 19 it is evident from the lackadaisical and ignorant attitude of the authorities that the healthcare plight of overburdened doctors and suffering of poor patients is not of any importance to them at all the letter stated Dr Sunil Duchania RDA president at Lady Hardinge Medical College said the authorities concerned do not seem to be concerned about the shortage of force in heathcare Due to the irresponsiblebehaviour the academic year of 45000 NEET PG aspirants is almost wasted with the super-added ripple effect of shortage of resident doctors to combat the impending third wave of COVID-19 in all hospitals across the nation Dr Anuj Aggarwal general secretary of Safdarjung RDA said PTI PLB CJ CJ