Click to play videoNew Delhi: Striking doctors at AIIMS have finally set up parallel OPDs to treat patients.
This decision came after a second patient died in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Thursday for lack of proper treatment at the hospital. The patient's condition had been critical for the last 15 days.
Doctors and students are continuing their strike in protest of Dr Venugopal's removal as AIIMS director.
Doctors claim that at a general body meeting held late on Thursday night, resident doctors at AIIMS had decided to join the parallel OPDs to be set up by the Faculty Association.
However, when they tried to put up a tent at midnight to start parallel OPDs, the police would not allow them to do the same, resulting in a scuffle between the resident doctors and the Delhi Police.
A similar incident had occured on May 31 when parallel OPD tents were removed, after the Supreme Court had asked doctors to call off their anti-reservation aggitation.
"The police used force on everybody be they male or female. They behaved really badly and many of our colleagues are hurt. They just appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night. God knows what they are trying to do here," says an AIIMS student who is taking part in the strike.
The students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have also joined in the protests. They organised a protest march on Thursday supporting Dr Venugopal saying that his dismissal was nothing but imperialism of the Government.
The students said Venugopal was a living legend, a role model for them and that they would always support him and his social deeds.
Says a PG Student, Faculty Of Commerce, BHU, Avneesh Shukla, "We really respect Dr Venugopal a lot. We are taking out this peaceful rally because it's our way of saying that 'we, the students, are with you, Dr Venugopal, whatever anyone says or does and that we need you to direct us'."
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court will continue the hearing on Dr Venugopal's petition against his dismissal on Friday.
The petition challenges the legal validity of the governing body that recommended his dismissal.
On Thursday the Centre had offered to revoke the order for his dismissal if Venugopal resigned, but Dr Venugopal's lawyer, Arun Jaitley did not give a firm response to the offer.
Students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and Ganesh Shanker Vidyarathi Medical College (GSVMC) on Friday took out a candlelight procession protesting the dismissal of P Venugopal as Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Carrying placards and posters that said Venugopal was being made a "scapegoat", the students took out a procession from the medical college premises to Moti Jheel area raising slogans against Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.
The IIT Kanpur students are already agitating against the reservation policy of the Centre and the medicos of GSVMC have threatened to intensify their agitation after consulting the students of other medical colleges in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter and Google+)
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.