Meat sellers across Uttar Pradesh go on an indefinite strike from Monday against the crackdown on illegal and mechanised slaughterhouses. “The government must allow renewal of existing licenses,” said one of the meat sellers at the protest. Under pressure, UP government issues a hasty clarification. During Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said the export of buffalo meat had gone down and China was not allowing the import of Indian buffalo meat.
A doctor from Bulandshahr’s Heritage hospital was thrashed by the patient’s family alleging medical negligence. The act was caught on CCTV cameras. “We can’t predict anything in this profession. She was administered spinal anaesthesia and there was no overdose of anaesthesia,” said Dr Sanjeev Yadav. 4,000 doctors went on a strike last week demanding CCTV cameras and security guards in the hospital after four incidents of attacks on doctors. The recent attack took place despite the Maharashtra government appealing to doctors to end their protest and assuring safety to doctors.
Protesting against the crackdown on illegal and mechanised slaughter houses in Uttar Pradesh, meat sellers here have gone on an indefinite strike . The mutton and chicken sellers who have pulled down their shutters have threatened to intensify their stir from Monday, said Mubeen Qureshi of the Lucknow Bakra Gosht Vypar Mandal. As a result, non veg food outlet, including the famous Tunday and Rahim's, who had shifted to mutton and chicken dishes after buffalo meat became scarce, too kept their shops shut.
In the past week, Maharashtra lodged four assault cases against doctors. Attacks on doctors took place in Nashik, Dhule, Sion and Aurangabad. Following this Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), started a protest against the system. Patients have crowded outside the Sion hospital and are denied medical facilities. The doctors have put their demand of security before the government and stay firm on not calling off the strike until they are assured safety.
