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AIIMS doctors get police treatment
Published on Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:12, Updated on Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 17:19 in 
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New 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.
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