BENGALURU: Office-bearers from the Indian Medical Association sat on a token dawn to dusk protest in the city on Monday over several demands including their safety. Patient services remained unaffected.
The association also wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi which they sought, be routed through Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
Among their other demands, they sought that a central legislation be made to address the issue of violence against doctors. They also sought that registration of ultrasound machines be done and not of the doctors. “Urgent amendments in the PC and PNDT Act are needed to ensure that strict penalties are imposed only on actual acts of sex determination or female foeticide and not for clerical errors in the maintenance of registers. The IMA is also of the view that registration should be of ultrasound machine and not of doctors not doing pelvic ultrasound,” read the letter.
They also sought that single doctor establishments be exempted from the purview of the Clinical Establishments Act along with suitable amendments in the Consumer Protection Act for capping the compensation amount as the current compensation practice.