Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) is an association created for the welfare of resident doctors all over India. It was founded in January 2014 in Delhi. FORDA has taken up a number of issues related to resident doctors since its inception.
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History
After series of meeting with representatives from various medical colleges of Delhi, FORDA was formed under Patronage of Dr. Vinod Gautam by Dr. Sanjeev Tomar on 12th Feb.2014. Dr. Sanjeev Tomar was founding president of the FORDA with core members including DR. Yogendra Deswal, Dr. Dheeraj Agarwal, Dr. Ashish Tomar, Dr. Balvinder Singh, Dr. Pradeep Singh & Dr. Ravinder Chauhan.
Since inception of FORDA, it has raised issues pertaining to resident doctors like objecting the proposed 7½ years tenure of MBBS, security, duty hours, conducive working environment, better DDRs and other issues time to time. FORDA has more than 30 government hospitals affiliated to it. A token strike was called on 27th Feb. 2015 under able leadership of Dr. Balvinder. When last strike was called on 22 & 23 June 2015 almost 20000 resident doctors joined in. ESMA was subsequently imposed on 23 June 2015. But that didn't call of the strike unless and until authorities paid heed to their demands.
Activities
In October 2015 FORDA complained about the unavailability of swine flu vaccination for medical staff. FORDA were opposed the recommendations made by the 7th central pay commission. for doctors.