05-27-2006, 03:27 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Talks with PM fail, medicos continue stir </b>
Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
A meeting of striking doctors with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday did not yield any solution in the ongoing impasse over reservation. Â
However, the PM did say that no action would be taken against agitating doctors. Infact, Singh reportedly drew a blank when asked by students as to how would he be able to increase the number of seats in a few months given the magnitude of logistics.
The meeting was attended by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P Venugopal, Health Secretary PC Hota and 12 representatives of the Youth For Equality group.
<b>"The Prime Minister has assured us that there will be no action taken against the agitating medicos at AIIMS," said Youth for Equality member Dr Vidya Nair.</b>
The medicos set aside rumours that the strike was being called off. The members had a two-hour general body meeting at AIIMS after meeting the Prime Minister where it was decided that the strike was still on until everything is provided to them in "black and white".
<b>"We will call off the strike only after all the legal aspects have been taken into account. Tomorrow we are going ahead with the rally," said a medico.</b>
On their demand for preparing a non-political judicial committee, the PM answered: "The atmosphere is not conducive for that at the moment."
<b>The medicos, however, took solace in the fact the PM assured that quota would not be increased to more than 50 per cent in the future. </b>
The students were busy preparing for the maha rally scheduled for Saturday evening. The central lawns at AIIMS bore a deserted look on Friday.
Majority of the medicos were busy fanning out pamphlets at traffic intersections in buses and in market places.
<b>The agitating medicos had a late night meeting on Thursday with Union Minister Oscar Fernandes on "specific demands" of setting up review the existing reservation policy</b>.
In about 25 students were sitting at the hunger strike at AIIMS. Few doctors from Bara Hindu Rao Hospital also joined the hunger strike within the premises of their college.
Parallel OPD was also non-functional for the third consecutive day which crippled the medical facilities at the hospitals across the Capital. The walk-in-interviews at LNJP and LHMC hospitals were stalled by the agitating doctors.
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Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
A meeting of striking doctors with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday did not yield any solution in the ongoing impasse over reservation. Â
However, the PM did say that no action would be taken against agitating doctors. Infact, Singh reportedly drew a blank when asked by students as to how would he be able to increase the number of seats in a few months given the magnitude of logistics.
The meeting was attended by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P Venugopal, Health Secretary PC Hota and 12 representatives of the Youth For Equality group.
<b>"The Prime Minister has assured us that there will be no action taken against the agitating medicos at AIIMS," said Youth for Equality member Dr Vidya Nair.</b>
The medicos set aside rumours that the strike was being called off. The members had a two-hour general body meeting at AIIMS after meeting the Prime Minister where it was decided that the strike was still on until everything is provided to them in "black and white".
<b>"We will call off the strike only after all the legal aspects have been taken into account. Tomorrow we are going ahead with the rally," said a medico.</b>
On their demand for preparing a non-political judicial committee, the PM answered: "The atmosphere is not conducive for that at the moment."
<b>The medicos, however, took solace in the fact the PM assured that quota would not be increased to more than 50 per cent in the future. </b>
The students were busy preparing for the maha rally scheduled for Saturday evening. The central lawns at AIIMS bore a deserted look on Friday.
Majority of the medicos were busy fanning out pamphlets at traffic intersections in buses and in market places.
<b>The agitating medicos had a late night meeting on Thursday with Union Minister Oscar Fernandes on "specific demands" of setting up review the existing reservation policy</b>.
In about 25 students were sitting at the hunger strike at AIIMS. Few doctors from Bara Hindu Rao Hospital also joined the hunger strike within the premises of their college.
Parallel OPD was also non-functional for the third consecutive day which crippled the medical facilities at the hospitals across the Capital. The walk-in-interviews at LNJP and LHMC hospitals were stalled by the agitating doctors.
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