New Delhi: Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss - a doctor by qualification – on Wednesday visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and warned the protesting medicos to end their strike or face termination of service.
"Then there is no other option left but to terminate them from service," he said when asked about the possible action against the striking medicos if they failed to return to work.
The minister, donning the doctors' lab coat, walked into the OPD at AIIMS around 0930 hrs (IST) and examined the patients for about 30 minutes as a "symbolic gesture".
Pointing out that the Government has initiated steps to maintain health services, he said, "if the condition continues like this, we have to find new doctors and they will be appointed permanently".
"Poor patients are coming here from different parts of the country; I appeal to the doctors to join work. It is our duty to save life and not to take it," Ramadoss said.
Ramadoss said a number of doctors have returned to work at AIIMS and the Government has asked AIIMS Director P Venugopal to provide adequate security to them.
He said he would visit other hospitals through the day to review the situation.
The Delhi Medical Association has called for a medical shutdown on Wednesday to protest against the Government's decision to implement 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in institutes of higher learning.
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