Click to play videoMumbai: Resident doctors' have been on strike in Maharashtra for a week and to be taken seriously they have now taken to Gandhigiri.
On the day seven of their strike on Monday, the doctors protested their expulsion by selling tea on the roads, polishing shoes and even collecting donations.
The doctors claimed that the money would be used to run a parallel OPD.
"We have lost our degree, we have no money for any payments and all the money that we had from before we have spent it on medicines for patients," claimed Dr. Saurabh Phoolmali, Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) member, who has been working at KEM Hospital.
The doctors have taken to the menial tasks to make a mockery of the system, but it seems patients are not willing to forgive them for going on strike.
Some even accused the doctors of resorting to cheap gimmicks.
"You should stop this drama. The public is suffering but you people are not ashamed," a patient shouted at the doctors.
But others like daily wage labourer Vijay Nikude who had come from Ambernath to get his wife treated appealed to their humane side.
"Don't strike as it affects the poor," said Nikude.
Some patients, however, seemed satisfied to use the parallel OPDs set up by the doctors.
"I have got the medicine and the doctors have told me to come next week," said a patient's relative Sugra Bano.
Meanwhile, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has asked the government what steps have been taken to reinstate medical services in the absence of the expelled doctors.
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