STRIKING RESIDENT doctors and medical students of Banaras Hindu University resumed their duties and handed-over’ their 17-day long anti-reservation campaign to the students of other streams here on Thursday.
Members of the Resident Doctors Association and Medical Students Association of Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS-BHU) resumed their duties with a commitment to continue their stir till the final results. RDA members resumed their duties at 8 am whereas medical students resumed their work at 10 am in the morning today. Apparently pleased over the intervention of the Supreme Court over quota issue, the striking medicos expressed confidence that intervention of Apex Court would yield some results in their favour soon.
“Intervention of Supreme Court is our win and we are sure to get justice soon,” said the medical students.
“We welcome this pro-active judgment by the Supreme Court and reconfirming our full faith in the judiciary, the RDA of IMS-BHU hereby resume duties with immediate effect in the interest of patient care,” said general secretary of RDA, Dr Mahesh P. Kate.
“We are not against the Supreme Court and confident to get justice over this issue,” the president of Medical Students Association of IMS-BHU, Dr Avinash Singh told reporters here today, adding that the legal procedure would check the dictatorial attitude of Union government over the quota issue.
The vice-president of Medical Students Association, Dr. SP Mishra said, “We are not calling off our strike but only handing it over to the students of other streams in the interest of patient care.” “We have generated awareness against the reservation policy of Union government across the country and now it is over to the students of other streams and common people to continue this stir in the national interest,” he added.
The duo said that a national core committee of students has already been formed, which would continue this agitation.
{{/usCountry}}The duo said that a national core committee of students has already been formed, which would continue this agitation.
{{/usCountry}}“We would extend full moral support to the agitation of other students against Union government’s decision to enhance reservation in Central-government funded elite academic institutes,” they added.
Meanwhile, thousands of patients took a sigh of relief as the medical students and resident doctors resumed their duties at Sir Sunderlal Hospital (popularly known as the AIIMS of eastern UP) in BHU today.
A large number of devotees were seen queued up at OPD ward and other wings of SS Hospital to get medical assistance here today.