Doctors will resume duty from Saturday, MARD tells Bombay High Court

“We don’t have any problem if managements of hospitals take suitable action against striking doctors,” it says.

March 24, 2017 04:40 pm | Updated 06:15 pm IST - Mumbai:

Placards of striking doctors lying in a hospital premises in central Mumbai on Friday.

Placards of striking doctors lying in a hospital premises in central Mumbai on Friday.

The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) told the Bombay High Court on Friday that doctors should resume duty by 8 a.m. on Saturday.

In an affidavit submitted before a Division Bench of the court comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice G S Kulkarn, the president and the secretary of MARD said they had advised doctors to join duty and that they would report for work from 8 a.m. Saturday.

The association said, “We don’t have any problem if managements of hospitals take suitable action against striking doctors.”

The court told MARD, “Good that you made your stand clear, you have dissociated yourself with striking doctors who have taken law in their hands.”

Advocate General Rohit Deo said doctors, at a meeting with the Chief Minister on Thursday, gave an assurance to him that they would join duty but they didn't. The resident doctors had not gone on strike at the Dhule Hospital, where a doctor was beaten up.

Counsel for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation told the court that in four days there were 53 deaths in the KEM hospital, 48 in the Sion hospital and 34 in the Nair Hospital. Extra police and CRPF personnel were deployed at hospitals.

The court said, “We tried to help them but they don't want our help.”

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