Doctors demand high budgetary allocation in health sector

On Doctors' Day, public health experts, including doctors from the AIIMS, Monday demanded higher budgetary allocation to the health sector for upgrading infrastructure and ensuring proper working conditions and checking violence against the medical fraternity.

The demands came during a panel discussion organised by the AIIMS Front for Social Consciousness on the campus of country's premiere medical institution here, and in the backdrop of rising incidents of assault on doctors.

Even in the national capital, doctors at the North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run Hindu Rao hospital have been protesting since Sunday after two of their colleagues were allegedly beaten up the previous night by relatives of a patient, who died at the facility.

Professor at Emergency Medicine, Dr LR Murmu stressed on the need for more funding in the health sector and a strong political will to address issues like shortage of manpower and infrastructure.

"The solutions to check such cases of violence that have .