""One must not forget that resident doctors are the junior most medical staff working in such hospitals."Currently, the demand of the resident doctors is to be provided security immediately and to restrict the entry of relatives while admitting a patient in the hospital.MARD, the apex body of the resident doctors, had officially not supported the decision of the medicos to stay away from work, but many of its members are a part of the ongoing protest.Since day one, the resident doctors have taken a stand to not hamper the emergency services, he said. Now, they should resume the duty," the minister said.However, the hearing on the petition filed by activist Afak Mandaviya, seeking action against the protesting doctors, was adjourned in the High Court on Wednesday as the bench presided by Chief Justice Manjula Chellur was not available.The resident doctors of state-run hospitals in Maharashtra were away from work for the third day on Wednesday, prompting the government to order them to report to duty by Wednesday evening or lose six months&China Precision Grinding Machines39; salary.Asked about negotiations with the Maharashtra government, MARD's general secretary Dr Parthiv Sanghavi had said, "When we contacted Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan regarding the same, we got just two minutes with him.The Bombay High Court had on Tuesday rapped the medicos while observing that their conduct was "shameful", and asked them to resign if they don't want to work.
The doctors could have been expelled and their medical registrations could have been cancelled as well, as per a January 31, 1996 government resolution, the notice stated.The plea will to be heard on Thursday.On the demands of medicos, Mundada said, "The resident doctors need sufficient security staff at the hospitals.Dr Sagar Mundada, Chairman of Indian Medical Association's youth wing in Maharashtra, said, "It is true that in some government and municipal run hospitals there have been delays in treating the patients.""They want it immediately but as the budget session (of Maharashtra Assembly) is on, without informing the House, government cannot take any major decision," the official said, on condition of anonymity.A senior official from the Medical Education department had said, "We have assured them of deploying some 400 security personnel by April 1, but the resident doctors are not convinced by it."The resident doctors should report to duty by today evening or they will lose their salary for six months.""Nobody is giving the resident doctors any written assurance, hence they are not convinced. The students of post graduate courses who are serving as resident doctors will also face the action," Mahajan had told reporters. No dean uses the funds and resident doctors face the wrath of relatives if something goes wrong.
