Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore - Pics Dayanand Kukkaje
Mangalore, May 27: In response to a call given by the district chapter of the Indian Medical Association, doctors and medicos staged demonstrations in city on Friday afternoon by taking out a procession, creating road blockades and burning the effigy of union HRD minister Arjun Singh. They protested against the proposed reservations in the education sector.
Private and government hospitals recorded low attendance of doctors. Only the casualty and ICU units appeared to have been properly attended. District's nodal hospitals, Wenlock and Lady Goschen, did without the services of private doctors.
The protest rally from the Light House Hill to the deputy commissioner's office was led by Dr Devdas Rai, who spiritedly decried the policy of reservations in PG studies. Former KMC dean Prof Dr K R Shetty detailed the ill-effects likely to be created by such a policy.
Over 1,500 members of the medical fraternity took part in the rally. A memorandum was submitted to the deputy commissioner for onward despatch. Roads were blockaded at Hamilton and Hampankatta circles.
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