Docs go on mass casual leave

Over 700 docs in Delhi have gone on mass leave as part of their anti-quota stir.

A large section of resident doctors at the Capital's key hospitals, including AIIMS and Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), have gone on a mass casual leave on Thursday to protest the Centre's decision to introduce reservation in government-aided educational institutions.

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The resident doctors of AIIMS, MAMC and Hindurao Hospital also staged a sit-in demonstration outside the Supreme Court.

AIIMS officials said that healthcare services in the hospital were not affected as faculty members and consultants were running the OPDs, the emergency and the casualty wards.

"We have a contingency plan to meet any eventuality," AIIMS spokesman Shakti Gupta said.

Besides the sit-in demonstration, medicos and students will also form a human chain outside the Supreme Court demanding its intervention to stop the government from going ahead with tabling of the Bill.

"We had called off the stir earlier after the Supreme Court intervened. The court should now tell the government to reconsider the decision," Anil Sharma, spokesperson of the AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association, said.