Here is a mail from a AIIMS Doctor that he has requested be passed
on to as many people as possible. Please pay heed. This is where India stands right now.
Dear friends please spend some time to read this. U can make a difference.
As u all guys know that there have beeen lot of protests going on
against the raise in reservations. All of us stuggle for months and years to make our dreams come true; No body in the government
is bothered about that. This new policy of govt ll be a major road block in the development of our nation and creation of
a caste free society. I want to share some developments occurring here with respect to this issue.
Abt 2 weeks back the Students Union ( SU ) of AIIMS ( UGs and Interns
) started the protests. they held peaceful march. Their main demand was to meet Honbl. Arjun Singh and to express their concern
regarding the hike in reservations. What they got in return. Water canons, tear gas shells and Lathis. Some of the interns
who were beaten were my friends and i could see their injury marks. Worse, some were girls. Sad isnt it ? Well next few days
due to their constant struggle they could get to meet Dr Arjun Singh. No positive response was obtained. He however promised
that before sending the bill to cabinet, he would inform the SU. The students continued to boycott their classes. Other medical
colleges of delhi also joined. We Resident Doctors of AIIMS however were not actively participating. We wore black badges
and attended few rallies.
12 th May saw a new beginning. Our medical students were brutally
assaulted by Delhi police. Injured were brought to AIIMS. Fracture hand bone, head injury, blunt trauma abdomen with intra-abdominal
bleed; > 300 students were manhandled including girls, stuffed in buses and taken to police station. I remember the dialogue
from RDB. This incident will prove to be a final nail in coffin for our Congress Govt. At around 3 pm the Resident Doctors
Association ( RDA ) of AIIMS announced an indefinite strike. All Junior Residents ( Acad or Non-acad ) & Senior Residents
boycotted. Protest rally was organized that day.
13 th may was the worst day in the history of our Indian Independence
and so called democracy. Medical Students of Mumbai were beaten like animals. Infact animals also are never treated like this.
Every body would have witness the brutality of the Mumbai Police.17 - 18 year old medical students were beaten up. Future
of our country treated like this? And these are the same Police Men who come to our OPD and ask for peferential treatment.
Shame on them. And listen to what Bhujbal said on TV. I thought we need a real RDB now. This incident triggered the suppressed
fire in each and every individual. We at AIIMS went on INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE from 14th morning joined by medical students
from MAMC Delhi, Lady Harding, RML Hosp, Rohtak Medical College . Slowly the fire spread to diferent states of our country.
You know what happened in Blore. Calcutta, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Gujrat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala boiled in protests. Students
of Delhi University ( BSc BCom...) also joined the strike.
The hunger strike in AIIMS continues. More than 100 students and
residents are sitting in the heat since 14 th morning just on plain water. Believe me we slept in the open last night empty
stomach. Its only when rain started pouring we had go inside the audi and slept there.
The IMA has announced comlete medical bandh today ( 15 th may ).
Doctors from all over delhi have come to AIIMS and are holding protests. IITs and IIMs have joined the strike. Even patients
and their attenders were of full support towards this cause. One man said," My father is admitted in NS department and is
fighting for his life and death, but i declare that i have no objection with ur strike. I support ur movement and the cause
for which u re fighting. Our country needed this."
All of us know what is right and what is wrong. Having said that
i feel that each one of us should follow our conscience. I ve written this message because i felt there are many of who might
not be aware of the exact situation. I request each one of u to please forward this to all ur friends, Medicos or Non-medicos.
Every common man needs to be aware of the injustice and should be involved in this effort.
This Movement will be a revolution in our independent country and
will be the most significant event after the British Rule. It ll be the cause for the rewriting of Indian Constitution where
just and meritorious people are not singled out and put to taste the adversities and someone else enjoys the benefit.
The government cannot hide its inadequacies in providing equal opportunities
to the under priviliged in rural areas by increasing the reservations. They have ruled the country for so many decades and
if in this time they are not able to provide equalilty in primary and secondary education for in dian citizens they cannot
mask their failure by providing reservations at each and every level. Its ridiculous. The whole issue of reservations was
a political gimmic of the present govt to garner votes.
Its time that things are not taken for granted by any one. Let it
be a senior minister police or anyone else. Whole of our nation needs to get aware of the amount of hardwork and sacrifice
we put to achieve our dreams.
We should not allow anyone to make a mockery of our struggle in future.
Thank U Friends.
Dr Kiran,
Junior Resident,
Internal Medicine,
All India Institute Of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi
