today that the government has decided to deploy an additional 1,100 armed police personnel from Maharashtra State Security Corporation in all the state and civic-run hospitals.
today that the government has decided to deploy an additional 1,100 armed police personnel from Maharashtra State Security Corporation in all the state and civic-run hospitals.
"The first lot of 500 police personnel will be deployed at hospitals in Mumbai on April 5. The remaining 600 will be deployed at hospitals across the state by April 30," he said.
"This will be in addition to the already deployed policemen at the hospitals," Deo said.
The court accepted this statement and asked the doctors to resume work.
"You (doctors) resume work and see if everything is done as assured by the government. We will hear the matter every fortnight and supervise the issue," the judges said.
Fadnavis, while appealing to the doctors to resume work, said, "The laws need continuous upgradation and the government is open to discussion."
"We will try to see that attacks on doctors do not happen and if it happens the perpetrators will be punished severely," the CM said.
State Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan had earlier warned the protesting resident doctors that they would lose six months' pay and face suspension if they did not resume work by 8 PM yesterday.
However, the doctors continued with their protest.
The Indian Medical Association -- which has some 40,000 members in Maharashtra -- had yesterday extended support to the agitation.
The protest also got support from various other organisations of medical consultants, orthopaedics, general practitioners, Mumbai Obstetric and Gynaecological Society, Association of Surgeons of India-Mumbai chapter, among others.
A representative of the protesting doctors earlier said, "The resident doctors also need armed security personnel at sensitive places on the hospital premises. There should be an alarm system so that the doctors can call the security." "The pass system, commonly practised in private hospitals, should be implemented to restrict the number of relatives visiting a patient," he said.
"There is also a need to make the attack on doctors a non-bailable offence and cases should be heard before fast track courts. These are our demands and we are not asking for the moon, still the state is not addressing it on priority," he said.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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