Federation of Resident Doctors Association

Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) is a professional association for resident doctors in India. It was founded in January 2014 in Delhi.
As of 24 December 2020. the FORDA president was Dr. Partha Pratim Bora and the General Secretary was Dr. Sunil Arora
History.
After series of meeting with representatives from medical colleges of Delhi, FORDA was formed under the patronage of Dr. Vinod Gautam by Dr. Sanjeev Tomar on 12 February 2014. Tomar became the first president with core members including Dr. Yogendra Deswal, Dr. Dheeraj Agarwal, Dr. Ashish Tomar, Dr. Balvinder Singh, Dr. Pradeep Singh, Dr. Pankaj Solanki and Dr. Ravinder Chauhan.
Since its inception FORDA, it has raised issues pertaining to resident doctors. These include the 7½ years tenure of MBBS, security, duty hours, conducive working environment, better DDRs and other issues. FORDA has more than 30 government hospitals affiliated to it.
27 February 2015, Balvinder called a toten strake. On 22–23 June 2015, a full labor strike was called. Almost 20000 resident doctors joined. ESMA was subsequently imposed on 23 June 2015. But that didn't end 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 opposed the recommendations made by the 7th central pay commission for doctors.
In April 2020 FORDA wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain, demanding separate accommodation for the Resident Doctors of various hospitals in India, who have been advised for home quarantine after COVID-19 pandemic duty, which was fulfilled by the government.
FORDA also raised issue regarding non-uniform fees and bonds in medical education imposed by various State Governments.