PANAJI
Resident doctors at the Goa Medical College have decided to continue their strike on Monday in support of justice for the Kolkata rape and murder victim that could potentially disrupt Out-patient Department (OPD) services at the hospital but Dean Shivanand Bandekar said they will keep the services open for all with senor doctors and consultants and the lecturers and professors.
The Goa Association of Resident Doctors (GARD) which joined the nationwide strike called by the national association of resident doctors since Friday morning, announced their decision to carry on with their strike and protest action on Sunday evening.
GARD said, they have intimated the GMC authorities of their decision to continue the strike and will inform the Dean about their future course of action on Monday evening.
Meanwhile, Dr Bandekar admitted that the resident doctors will strike work on Monday as well but insisted that OPD services will be kept operational with the help of senior doctors, consultants and all the GMC's HoDs and subordinate doctors.
On Sunday, some services at the GMC were partially affected. Emergency services were also fully functional as the striking doctors had pledged that Casualty rooms as well as 'emergency services' including the trauma ward will be exempt from the strike.
It was the third day of the doctors' strike but OPD services are usually shut on Sunday.
Meanwhile, doctors operating privately who had joined the stir on Saturday under the aegis of the Indian Medical Association's (IMA) State branch called off their stir at 6 am, according to its president, Dr Sandesh Chodankar.
