New Delhi: Doctors have demanded the immediate release of arrested doctors after
nearly 100 doctors staged a protest against the quota policy clashed with the police outside the Supreme Court on Thursday.
Doctors have threatened to completely halt health services throughout Delhi if their collegues are not released immediately.
The scuffle began when the police tried to stop the marching doctors from entering the apex court premises.
Two lady doctors and three others were injured in the showdown.
A large section of resident doctors at the Capital's key hospitals, including All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), went on a mass casual leave on Thursday protesting the Centre's decision to introduce reservation in Government-aided educational institutions.
AIIMS officials said healthcare services in the hospital were not affected as faculty members and consultants were running the OPDs and emergency and casulty wards were also functioning.
"We have a contingency plan to meet any eventuality," AIIMS spokesman Shakti Gupta said.
Besides the sit-in demonstration, medicos and students had planned to form a human chain outside the Supreme Court demanding its intervention to stop the Government from going ahead with tabling of the bill.
But the police has stopped the doctors and the students from forming the human chain in the Capital.
"We had called off the stir earlier after the Supreme Court intervened. The apex Court should now tell the Government as well to reconsider the decision as the matter is
sub judice," spokesperson of resident doctors association of AIIMS, Anil Sharma said.
On Wednesday the doctors had observed a 'black day' by wearing black badges. And on Tuesday they had taken to the streets with 26 being detained after clashes with the police.
The protests restarted when the Cabinet decided on Monday to introduce a bill in the ongoing session of Parliament to implement the reservations.
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