Monday will see about 25000 doctors from Mumbai joining the one-day nationwide bandh to protest against the Clinical Estabilishments Bill which lays unrealistic minimal standards on infrastructure and staff in hospitals nursing homes and clinics. Officials of the IMA have said that public and major private hospitals will be functional while nursing homes and single-doc clinics will remain shut. Emergency services will not be affected. Only the outpatient department will remain shut. In case of emergency our doctors will attend to patients said Dr Jayesh Lele honorary secretary IMA Maharashtra. In Mumbai about 1600 nursing homes are run by doctors