Highlights 1 1,500 residents on strike2 Have lodged an institutional FIR: RDA President3 Security should be increased: RDA PresidentAs many as 1,500 resident doctors at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital are on an indefinite strike, after a patient allegedly manhandled their colleague, the news agency ANI reported. The patient claimed that the doctor had been delaying his treatment, Resident Doctors' Association President Dheer Singh said. READ | Delhi: Doctors on strike to protest against violence faced by fellow medical professionalsDoctors protest outside K.E.M hospital in Mumbai's Parel in March. Every next day, there is a new story of a doctor (who) gets beaten up," AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association President Dr Vijay Gurjar told Mail Today. AIIMS doctors wearing helmets at work to express solidarity with their Maharashtra counterpartsALSO READAIIMS Delhi doctors wear helmets to work in support to their counterparts in MaharashtraWATCH VIDEODelhi: AIIMS doctors support Maharashtra's protesting doctors; wear helmets to work

Source: India Today August 24, 2017 02:58 UTC