Private doctors strike successful in Gujarat, govt doctors protested wearing black ribbon(Video)
June 25, 2012
Ahmedabad, 25 June 2012
Various prominent medical and para medical associations in Gujarat today supported the Indian Medical Association (IMA) strike by actively participating it.
The resident doctors observed a black day by wearing black ribbons. They attended the OPDs in public hospitals.
The IMA had called for a nationwide strike to protest the Centre’s new National Commission for Health. The IMA had appealed to civic and public hospital doctors, homeopaths and ayurveda doctors to participate in the strike.
The doctors practicing in private hospitals and clinics attended only emergency services and didn’t attend OPDs.The people who had surgeries scheduled for June 25 were asked to either pre-pone or postpone the surgeries.
Programmes like dharnas and rallies were organized in major cities and towns across Gujarat.
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