Summary:
The resident doctors and medical interns participated in the nationwide strike to protest against the repeated violence taking place against the medical fraternity. The resident doctors used various ways to show their support such as wearing a bandage on the forehead, wearing helmets to name a few. According to the public hospitals in Mumbai, while the resident doctors attended emergency cases and surgeries, it did not harm the functioning of the hospital. While the KEM Hospital's resident doctors and interns gathered in the hospital premises wearing black clothes and few had the bandage on their forehead, the BYL Nair Hospital's resident doctors were wearing helmets and showed placards to protest against the violence. Sion Hospital's resident doctors used their time by donating blood on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day..