AIIMS Doctors Urge PM Modi For Central Law To Protect Healthcare Workers
NDTV
The resident doctors' association (RDA) of AIIMS also urged for the restoration of law and order at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata where a trainee doctor was raped and killed.
The resident doctors' association (RDA) of AIIMS on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention for enactment of a central law via an ordinance to protect healthcare workers and institutions across the nation.
The body has also urged for the restoration of law and order at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata where a postgraduate trainee doctor was allegedly raped and killed.
The AIIMS RDA also drew the prime minister's attention to the subsequent vandalism at the hospital and the "worrying rise in violence against doctors, healthcare workers, and medical institutions" across the country.
