Minister Ramadoss said strike by medical community affected lives in comparison to that by others which impacted only services.
NEW DELHI: Telling striking resident doctors to resume duty, the government on Monday threatened to recruit "new people" if they failed to do so as health services were affected in the city in view of a medical bandh on the issue of reservation.
"We have appealed to the students and junior and senior residents to come back and join duty. I am sure they will do so in a few hours or Tuesday," Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told NDTV.
"However, if junior and senior residents don't join duty, we will have new people for work... it is already in the (service) contract... they just cannot say one fine day that they are not joining duty," he said, adding there were several orders, including from the Supreme Court.
Ramadoss said strike by medical community affected lives in comparison to that by others which impacted only services.
"...This is going beyond limits," he said.
The minister accused the media for "instigating" the matter.
Earlier, the situation arising in view of the strike by medicos was reviewed at a high-level meeting that was attended by officials from the Delhi Government, police, Health Ministry, Home Ministry and other related departments.
The officials said government was planning action against resident doctors if they continued to abstain from work.
"Definitely action will be taken against them. We plan to serve them memos," they said.
Resident doctors of hospitals continued to strike work, saying the agitation would continue unless the government rolls back the controversial proposal to extend 27 per cent reservation for other backward classes in educational institutes. They are on strike since Saturday.
However, the impact was maximum on Monday as it is a working day.
Several private hospitals such as Fortis and GM Modi joined the medical bandh called by the IMA.
Out Patient Departments in city hospitals did not function in government and many private hospitals, giving patients a harrowing time.
However, resident doctors ran parallel OPDs for patients. Emergency departments and ICUs were manned by senior doctors.
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