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Jr docs force closure of OPDs
TWO DAYS after the Union Cabinet gave its nod to introducing a Bill in the current session of Parliament for providing 27 per cent reservations to Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government-aided institutions of higher education including professional ones, the anti-quota stir gained momentum in the city on Wednesday. Upset over the government's decision, the members of Junior Doctors Association (JDA) of Moti Lal Nehru Medical College sported black arm bands in protest and forced closure of all OPD services at the busy SRN Hospital this morning.
TWO DAYS after the Union Cabinet gave its nod to introducing a Bill in the current session of Parliament for providing 27 per cent reservations to Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government-aided institutions of higher education including professional ones, the anti-quota stir gained momentum in the city on Wednesday.
Upset over the government's decision, the members of Junior Doctors Association (JDA) of Moti Lal Nehru Medical College sported black arm bands in protest and forced closure of all OPD services at the busy SRN Hospital this morning.
Also angry over the police crack down on Tuesday in New Delhi on medicos and other students protesting against the government move, the junior doctors of the Medical College assembled near the emergency wing of Swaroop Rani Nehru (SRN) Hospital on Wednesday morning, raised slogans against the Union Government and decided to shut down the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) for which the patients had already arrived in the hospital in large numbers.
Following the decision, the junior doctors visited the OPDs in group and forced their closure.
"The move is in protest against the Union Government's decision to introduce OBC reservations and the brutality with which students protesting its decision were treated in New Delhi on Tuesday," said Dr Neeraj, president of MLN Medical College Junior Doctors' Association. The MLN Medical College Junior Doctors' Association president said that the junior doctors had decided to hold a meeting on Wednesday evening at 8 pm to decide the future course of their protest against the Union Government’s decision on reservation for the Other Backward Castes (OBCs).
