Candle light march protests delay in MEET-PG counselling
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 30 2021:
Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), JNIMS Imphal on Thursday organised a candle light march inside the JNIMS campus to show solidarity to all the resident doctors across the nation who are protesting repeated postponement of NEET-PG 2021 counselling.
In a release, RDA, JNIMS stated that it strongly condemned the brutal manhandling of the peacefully protesting doctors in the national capital on December 27.Moreover, there is excessive shortage of manpower in all the hospitals countrywide as one whole batch of resident doctors has not yet joined service for nearly a year now.
The present resident doctors who are serving since the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic and who will also be serving in the impending third wave are facing immense difficulties and are totally exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally, it lamented.
RDA JNIMS asserted that conducting the pending NEET-PG counselling will reinforce the nation with at least 40,000 to 50,000 resident doctors.
As such, they Urged authorities concerned to conduct the NEET-PG 2021 counselling at the earliest.