<p>Healthcare services at AIIMS in Delhi remained affected for the third consecutive day on Saturday as resident doctors remained adamant that the administration suspend a senior doctor who had "slapped" one of their colleagues in front of patients and other staffers.</p>.<p>Routine surgeries remained cancelled, out-patient clinics functioned in a restricted manner and patients seeking OPD consultation were sent back due to the strike. Only the emergency and ICU services functioned.</p>.<p>The senior doctor, who heads a department at the premier institute, has tendered a written apology for assaulting the resident doctor and proceeded on leave on the directions of an internal probe panel.</p>.<p>The resident doctors, who are on protest since Thursday evening, paid no heed to AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria's appeal to call off their strike and return to work.</p>.<p>"The senior doctor has been sent on leave. We want the administration to suspend him. Till he is suspended we will continue our strike," a doctor participating in the strike said.</p>.<p>The hospital administration has put in place a contingency plan for patient-care services, as a part of which faculty-on-call in all clinical departments have to physically man the in-patient wards.</p>.<p>"OPD services will function on restricted basis till such a time that normalcy is restored. Only follow-up patients with a prior appointment will be registered in OPD. New Patients OPD registration will be done as per availability of faculty in respective OPD as decided by Head of Department/Unit concerned. No walk-in registration (new and old) will be done," an order issued by the administration stated.</p>.<p>In a letter to Guleria, the Resident Doctors Association has alleged that the senior doctor slapped a senior resident in front of attendees, nursing staff and colleagues and that the resident doctor was in depression.</p>.<p>The RDA said an atmosphere of fear existed in the department headed by the senior doctor, and that nobody protested as the chief threatened to fail the junior doctors.</p>.<p>The RDA has written to Health Minister J P Nadda, who is also the president of AIIMS, seeking revocation of Padmashree and Dr B C Roy awards to the senior doctor.</p>.<p>"We reprimand all his actions and request you to consider revoking his B C Roy and Padmashree awards, as we believe that he is not worthy of holding such prestigious awards," they said in their letter.</p>
<p>Healthcare services at AIIMS in Delhi remained affected for the third consecutive day on Saturday as resident doctors remained adamant that the administration suspend a senior doctor who had "slapped" one of their colleagues in front of patients and other staffers.</p>.<p>Routine surgeries remained cancelled, out-patient clinics functioned in a restricted manner and patients seeking OPD consultation were sent back due to the strike. Only the emergency and ICU services functioned.</p>.<p>The senior doctor, who heads a department at the premier institute, has tendered a written apology for assaulting the resident doctor and proceeded on leave on the directions of an internal probe panel.</p>.<p>The resident doctors, who are on protest since Thursday evening, paid no heed to AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria's appeal to call off their strike and return to work.</p>.<p>"The senior doctor has been sent on leave. We want the administration to suspend him. Till he is suspended we will continue our strike," a doctor participating in the strike said.</p>.<p>The hospital administration has put in place a contingency plan for patient-care services, as a part of which faculty-on-call in all clinical departments have to physically man the in-patient wards.</p>.<p>"OPD services will function on restricted basis till such a time that normalcy is restored. Only follow-up patients with a prior appointment will be registered in OPD. New Patients OPD registration will be done as per availability of faculty in respective OPD as decided by Head of Department/Unit concerned. No walk-in registration (new and old) will be done," an order issued by the administration stated.</p>.<p>In a letter to Guleria, the Resident Doctors Association has alleged that the senior doctor slapped a senior resident in front of attendees, nursing staff and colleagues and that the resident doctor was in depression.</p>.<p>The RDA said an atmosphere of fear existed in the department headed by the senior doctor, and that nobody protested as the chief threatened to fail the junior doctors.</p>.<p>The RDA has written to Health Minister J P Nadda, who is also the president of AIIMS, seeking revocation of Padmashree and Dr B C Roy awards to the senior doctor.</p>.<p>"We reprimand all his actions and request you to consider revoking his B C Roy and Padmashree awards, as we believe that he is not worthy of holding such prestigious awards," they said in their letter.</p>