New Delhi: The resident doctors and students at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have reacted aggressively to the Government's decision of implementing quota from June 2007.
They say that the parallel Out Patient Departments that they had been running during the strike would be cancelled now.
In a meeting between the UPA coordination committee and the Left Parties on Tuesday night, it had been decided that the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) will be implemented from June 2007.
The legislation for this purpose will be brought in Parliament in the monsoon session.
Agitating medicos on Wednesday also took up the task of trying to thwart a new recruitment drive that has been launched by the Government to replace striking doctors in the strike-affected hospitals.
The interviews at Safdarjung Hospital were postponed as the protesting doctors went to different hospitals trying to convince candidates arriving for walk-in interviews to return.
"We have postponed the interviews for resident doctors," Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital R S Salhan said.
"Three persons had come to Safdarjung Hospital for interview, but we convinced them against it and they have joined us," member AIIMS Resident Doctors Association Dr Kumar Harsh, said.
A senior government official said interviews were on for recruiting doctors in hospitals like Safdarjung, Lok Narayan Jai Prakash hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College and Guru Teg Bahardur hospital where the services have been badly affected due to the strike.
"Interviews are being carried out in Union Government-run Safdarjung hospital and others," an official said.
The Safdarjung Faculty Association had passed a resolution on Tuesday evening against the walk-in interviews, saying it would complicate the matter.
The resolution has been sent to the
Union Health Secretary's office.
Meanwhile, no action has been taken by the Government towards eviction of the striking doctors from hostels.
The medical students' indefinite hunger strike in the capital entered the 11th day as the protestors planned a march in the AIIMS campus which would be joined by the faculty members of the premier health institute.
(With inputs from PTI)
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