New Delhi : AIIMS resident Doctors hold protest over work, hostel issues

"Our hostels, we were told were supposed to be completed over two years ago, but the construction is still pending

Also, our working hours have not been fixed. So, these three major issues should be addressed by the authorities, otherwise protests would continue," he said.

The AIIMS campus has about 1,500 resident doctors and the premier institute gets a huge rush of patients, both in the Out-patients Department (OPD) as well as the Emergency Department.

"We met the AIIMS Director and the Deputy Director Administration and both have assured that our issues would be addressed.

"They have given us a few verbal assurances that vial preparations would be done by the staff and we would be drawing blood samples only till the next two months, as technicians would be hired for the same by that time," he claimed.

"We have asked for that assurance in writing in the next few days, failing which from Friday, we would intensify the stir," he said.

Also, if our hostels are not built by November 30, we will launch an indefinite strike over that issue from that time onwards, he said.