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Teaching Hospital’s resident doctors begin hunger strike in Dr KC’s support

Resident doctors of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital stage a mass hunger strike in support of Dr Govinda KC, in Kathmandu, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018.

Kathmandu, July 24

Resident doctors of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu have started a mass hunger strike in solidarity with medical education reform activist Dr Govinda KC, who is on the 25th day of his fast-unto-death at the hospital.

Around 150 doctors are staging the hunger strike from 10 am today at the hospital premises, outside the building where Dr KC has been kept.

Just before the strike, they also staged a rally by putting black bands on their face at the hospital premises. They picketed the Institute of Medicine Dean’s Office there.

They have been boycotting attending patients at all hospital units except the emergency and the intensive care unit for last few days, as a part of the protest they launched demanding that the government take initiatives to save Dr KC’s life.

They have warned of making their protest programmes sterner as the government has not given any attention.

 

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