PGI Chandigarh issues show cause notice to Doctors' Association over hunger strike
Show Cause Notice
Chandigarh: After doctors at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) Chandigarh held a 12-hour hunger strike on October 15 in solidarity with protesting doctors in Bengal, the administration issued a show-cause notice to the president of the Association of Resident Doctors in connection.
In the notice issued on Friday, the administration asked for an explanation as to why the association encouraged fellow doctors to go on strike in violation of the orders of the Supreme Court. Demanding a reply in two days, the authorities said that strict legal action would be taken against the office-bearers of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) if failed to provide a satisfactory response.
"Representatives of ARD were called in the office of the director a day before their call for strike and persuaded in the presence of deans and medical superintendent not to proceed on strike, given the prevailing situation in the interest of patient care services. However, despite persuasion by the director along with his team, the ARD proceeded on strike on October 15. Also, it incited the resident doctors of PGI to go on strike, which has added to the gross harassment of patients as sanitation and hospital’s outsourced workers were already on strike," reads the notice.
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