Dharamshala, Oct. 7 -- Sometimes doctors are reluctant to go to far-flung and remote areas to treat patients, but I hope that you never refuse to serve in such locations. Even if it is for one or two years, I hope you go to such places and serve the people there," President Droupadi Murmu said while addressing the first convocation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bilaspur, on Tuesday.

Murmu urged the first batch of doctors graduating from the AIIMS Bilaspur to serve in remote and backward areas, where doctors are often reluctant to work.

At the start of her address, the President paid obeisance to Mata Shri Naina Devi, the deity of the 'shakti peeth' in Bilaspur. She acknowledged Bilaspur's sacred soil and its hi...