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New Delhi, May 15: Adding to the heat of anti-quota stir across the country, doctors in Maharashtra and Delhi are likely to cease work and take out silent marches on Monday in protest against police baton-charge on striking medicos in Mumbai on Saturday.

Denouncing the police action as brutal, the Indian Medical Association gave a call for a medical shutdown in Delhi and Maharashtra on Monday which is likely to cripple health services in both the states.

The Association, highly agitated over the police action, shot off letters to the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the Congress President demanding stringent action those behind the police "high-handedness".

"We have called for a Delhi and Maharashtra medical bandh tomorrow (Monday) against police brutality," Dr Vinay Aggarwal, IMA Secretary General, said.

Demanding a judicial inquiry into the incident, the IMA said it would stage a protest march from Azad Maidan to Mantralaya in Mumbai tomorrow to protest the police action.

Medicos attached to Gujarat government-run colleges said they would observe a day-long strike tomorrow in Surat to express solidarity with their counterparts.

At a meeting in Patna, the IMA’s Bihar chapter condemned the police action on medicos protesting against proposed quotas for OBCs in elite central educational institutions. Medical and Engineering students staged a protest march in Bangalore slamming the police action.

Residents doctors of all medical colleges in the national capital were already on an indefinite hunger strike demanding fulfilment of their demands,

"We will continue the hunger strike and the agitation till our demands are met," the AIIMS Resident Doctors Association said.

Acknowledging that excessive force was used by police against striking medicos, Maharashtra government ordered a probe into the incident by Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy and asked him to submit a report within a week.

On Saturday, Police swung batons to scatter a group of medical students who blocked roads near Raj Bhavan in South Mumbai.

AIIMS cancels leave for all senior doctors 
 
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New Delhi: In view of the strike by resident doctors, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has cancelled the leave of all senior doctors to man its out patient departments and emergency services. Also read: Medical shutdown in Delhi, Maharashtra on Monday

The leave have been cancelled as part of the contingency plan that has been put into action, institute officials said.

"We will try to run our OPDs and emergency services as normal," they said.

The step has been taken in view of Union Health Ministry directing Medical Superintendents of all hospitals to ensure functioning of health services.