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Protesting PG docs arrested, freed later
Post Graduate service doctors who have been protesting for almost three weeks, were arrested on Wednesday from Madras Medical College (MMC). Stating that they would not give up protesting, the doctors added that their fight would continue till their demands were met with.
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Despite having received permission to form a human chain and hold a protest at MMC, some of the doctors were allegedly manhandled and forced into a government bus to be arrested by the police.
“It was the 19th day of our strike and we had permission to protest. As many as 600 of us assembled and formed a human chain near MMC. When we tried to enter the campus, the police picked up one of the PG doctors and forced him into the bus,” one of the doctors said.
“They took around 100 service doctors with them and held them hostage at a global kalyanam mandapam near Mint Street. After we put pressure on them, they released the doctors after 3pm,” he added.
Irked by the behaviour of the police, the service doctors have decided to hold a protest again on Thursday even as Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan has called the service candidates for talks.
Meanwhile, urging the Post Graduates to stop their protest, Health Minister Dr C Vijaya Baskar said, “The service candidates are a part of the Health Department and must consider the welfare of the people and return to work.
We are recruiting assistant professors. Recruitment is done under the Medical Recruitment Board in two ways – competitive exams and counselling.”
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