{"id":314370,"date":"2019-08-01T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314370"},"modified":"2019-08-01T06:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T06:20:44","slug":"doctors-on-strike-against-national-medical-commission-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/doctors-on-strike-against-national-medical-commission-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors on strike against National Medical Commission Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/IMA.jpg 542w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/IMA-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/>Health care services at numerous government hospitals, including AIIMS Safdarjung and RML in Delhi, were disrupted on Thursday as resident doctors went on an indefinite strike and withdrew all kind of services to protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, the Lok Sabha had passed the Bill and it will be tabled in the Rajya Sabha today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan in a tweet on Wednesday night said he would table the NMC bill for consideration and passage in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vardhan also assured country people that the historic bill, if passed, would bring major changes in the medical education sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Sumedh Sandanshiv, president, Federation of Resident Doctors\u2019 Association (FORDA) said that the bill was anti-poor, anti-student and undemocratic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, resident doctors at AIIMS will hold a demonstration today and march towards Parliament in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care services at numerous government hospitals, including AIIMS Safdarjung and RML in Delhi, were disrupted on Thursday as resident doctors went on an indefinite strike and withdrew all kind of services to protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill. On Monday, the Lok Sabha had passed the Bill and it will be tabled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[1379,11688,11689,11690],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314372,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314370\/revisions\/314372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}