The campus of the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) here has been a witness to many protests, strikes and hunger strikes by doctors in the past.
But on Tuesday, when over 80 doctors at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), situated within the MCH campus, came out in protest holding the banner ‘Save RCC’, the event was unprecedented. Never before in the hallowed history of the first and the oldest cancer care institution in the State have its doctors raised their voice in protest because they had been a contented lot. But they decided to protest on Tuesday because their back was to the wall, said the Doctors’ Association of RCC.
Doctors at the RCC said they were not striking work, they just took their ‘silent protest’ outside their own gates so as to draw attention to the numerous issues that have been smouldering within the institution for long and which seemed to be falling on deaf ears. The protest lasted just an hour.
