IMA Doctors strike Violates Court Orders: Kunal Saha's NGO Files Contempt plea in Supreme Court
New Delhi: An NGO has filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking contempt proceedings against the Centre and Indian Medical Association (IMA) for alleged violation of its earlier 'order' with regard to doctors going on strike.
The top court had in November 2014 said: "We would only express our desire that the doctors, who carry out a noble service as God's agent by saving lives of people, should not resort to strikes with any intermittent cause but undertake their responsibility with efficiency and utmost sincerity at all times."
While the apex court made this observation, it had not restrained doctors from going on strike.
The NGO, People for Better Treatment, through its president Kunal Saha, claimed that in spite of the repeated and clear calls from the highest court of the land, doctors across India have continued to resort to strike disrupting regular hospital services and bringing endless pain, suffering and death for the hapless patients.
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