Healthcare services across Delhi and Maharashtra are set to be paralysed on Friday with of OPD services and routine surgeries in government hospitals as a mark of solidarity with members of their fraternity in Bengal who have been protesting against murderous attacks on them.Only emergency services will function. The OPDs at AIIMS Delhi and Safdarjung - two of the biggest public hospitals in the country that witness a footfall of over 10,000 daily - will remain shut with resident doctors striking work. AIIMS Patna and Raipur will also be hit as doctors there have joined the protest.In a show of solidarity, many doctors from corporate-run hospitals, too, will join the protest. Dr Girish Tyagi, president of DMA, which has a membership of 18,000 doctors, said OPD services at private hospitals will also be shut.Healthcare services across Delhi and Maharashtra are set to be paralysed on Friday with doctors giving a call for complete shutdown of OPD services and routine surgeries in government hospitals as a mark of solidarity with members of their fraternity in Bengal who have been protesting against murderous attacks on them.In a show of solidarity, many doctors from corporate-run hospitals, too, will join the protest. Dr Girish Tyagi, president of DMA, which has a membership of 18,000 doctors, said OPD services at private hospitals will also be shut."We are observing black day on Friday,” said Dr Aparna Jaswal, senior cardiologist at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. Some other senior doctors at private hospitals in Delhi echoed her. The Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) separately gave a call on Thursday to this effect. President of MARD central Dr Kalyani Dongre said around 4,500 resident doctors in Maharashtra would stay away from work.The shutdown call from DMA, MARD and resident doctors of three AIIMS centres came even as Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said he would take up the issue with the concerned CMs. “We work tirelessly for hours to save lives. But today, our own lives are in danger. How can we work in such environment? Our colleagues in Bengal are being attacked and threatened while the state looks away,” said Dr Jawahar Singh, vice-president of AIIMS Resident Doctors’ Association.Maharashtra Association of Bonded Senior Resident Doctors has also extended support to the protest. “It’s government’s failure to create a safe work environment for us,” said Dongre, warning that protests would be intensified if the Bengal government didn’t meet the demands of the protesting doctors in the state. Indian Medical Association will send an appeal to the PM and the Union home minister demanding a stringent “central hospital protection Act” to protect doctors from attack. Doctors across the country will wear black badges at work as a mark of protest.