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IMA has maintained utmost restraint and patience inspite of extreme provocations. Doctors have been abused, beaten up, denied entry and residence. Obstruction to cremation is the last straw that IMA can bear. If dignity is denied even in death, our patience and restraint lose their value. We demand a special Central Law against violence on Doctors , nurses, health care workers and Hospitals by an ordinance.

April 12, 2020 "Information Clearing House" -Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with suction pads waiting to fasten themselves on to our lungs?

As a result of the government’s lax policies on mob lynching the terrible incident that occurred in Palghar, 125 km from Mumbai.

13 April 2020 - It has been brought to our notice that the Government of India is in the process of enforcing the three labour codes namely the Industrial Relations Code 2019, the Code on Social Security 2019 and the Occupational Health, Safety and Working Conditions Code 2019 that at this time are before parliament through ordinance or executive order.

The CORONA virus Pandemic is a huge global challenge and needs to be dealt with in all seriousness. While some amount of restriction of the rights and liberties to the extent to which it is reasonable and necessary may well be justified and would be Constitutionally permissible, but not in a manner that is disproportionate to what is actually required.