This Article is From Sep 24, 2010

Delhi: 200 govt doctors, nurses walk out during briefing on CWG deployment

Delhi: 200 govt doctors, nurses walk out during briefing on CWG deployment
New Delhi: Even as countries like Australia and New Zealand finally express their support for the Commonwealth Games, another embarrassment has surfaced for the Delhi organisers.

Close to 200 doctors and nurses of various Delhi government hospitals on Friday staged a walk out during an official briefing on Commonwealth Games deployment that was conducted by the Medical Superintendent.

Their services have been commissioned by the Delhi government that requires them to attend to the athletes and delegates who've begun arriving in Delhi for the CWG.

Doctors and nurses are furious because they have still not been told exactly where they will be stationed. For now, they're manning ambulances that are repeatedly asked to move by policemen from the venues where they're stationed.

Doctors and nurses have still not been given accreditation cards.

Some say they're being asked to sit in ambulances for up to eight hours without any meals being provided to them.

More details are awaited.
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