Doctors working in private hospitals across Karnataka will go on strike on November 3. They will be protesting against the state government’s decision to implement the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2017, and have threatened to quit if their demands are not met. “If the government does not listen to us, we will quit our profession by November 10,” President-elect of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Karnataka. However, representative of the Karnataka a pro-patient organisation, does not agree with their demands in its entirety.
“They have a right to protest, but their reason is absolutely invalid. From the first day, their stance about the Bill has been extremely problematic. The only message that has come across is that they do not want to be accountable to anybody, least of all the patients or law of the land,” he told. The strike called by the Karnataka…
