MUMBAI: Around 1,500 resident doctors from four civic medical colleges will go on a strike from August 1 to protest against delay in recruitment of new doctors.
"Resident doctors from KEM, Sion, Nair and Cooper hospitals will go first on strike. And, if there is no response from the authorities, residents from peripheral hospitals will join the stir," said Dr Pravin Bhage from MARD at Sion Hospital. Every six months, BMC hospitals recruit 188 non-senior resident doctors.
Intervention of state DMER has delayed the recruitment. "This has increased workload on doctors," said a doctor from a KEM hospital.
