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ITANAGAR, 17 Aug:<\/strong> The Indian Medical Association’s Arunachal Pradesh chapter (IMA-AP), along with doctors of private hospitals, shut down several medical services for 24 hours from 6 am of Saturday, in solidarity with the nationwide protest by doctors over the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor in RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.<\/p>\n Doctors, both government and private, across the state staged a sit-in protest at their respective hospital premises.<\/p>\n Talking to The Arunachal Times, IMA-AP president Dr Kesang Wangdi Thongdok expressed regret over the inconvenience to the public, but informed that “all emergency services, have, however, been excluded from the shutdown.”<\/p>\n “On Saturday morning a heart attack patient was admitted, and the cardiology doctor immediately came to treat the patient,” he said, adding that “many deliveries also took place during the day.”<\/p>\n He said that the incident in Kolkata has not only impacted the medical fraternity but also raised broader concern over women’s safety in the country.<\/p>\n Dr Thongdok emphasised that security is a fundamental right and not a privilege. Reiterating the demands placed by the central IMA, he said that a strong law should be enacted for the medical fraternity of the country and there should be security arrangements for the welfare of the resident doctors.<\/p>\n “Many doctors in Arunachal’s CHCs and district hospitals work single-handedly, without the provision of CCTV cameras, which speaks a lot about their security,” he said.<\/p>\n “Support has been received from all corners of the country, including from nurses’ organisations, pharmacy associations, and women’s bodies of the state,” he informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 17 Aug: The Indian Medical Association’s Arunachal Pradesh chapter (IMA-AP), along with doctors of private hospitals, shut down several medical services for 24 hours from 6 am of Saturday, in solidarity with the nationwide protest by doctors over the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor in RG Kar Medical College & Hospital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}