Shimla, Sept. 15 -- The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) on Tuesday organised a protest march towards the Himachal Pradesh Secretariat in Shimla against the shifting of Gynaecology OPD and ward services from Kamla Nehru Hospital (KNH) to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC), with a large number of women participating in the demonstration.

The march began from the Tolland area of Shimla, with protesters raising slogans against the state government and demanding that the Gynaecology OPD and ward at KNH be restored.

The protest also comes against the backdrop of the recent death of a woman and her newborn child at IGMC after the woman was shifted there from KNH. AIDWA leaders questioned the decision to shift th...