Doctors call off strike in Hyderabad
TV reports are claiming junior doctors in Hyderabad have called off the cripling strike that hit medical services across the city.
Talks between the medicos and govt officials seem to have worked in resolving the stalemate.
Gathering under banner of the Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJDA), the doctors were demanding the Special Protection Force (SPF), withdrawn in 2007, be provided to them again in the wake of increasing attacks by relatives of patients.
Medical services were hit at the Osmania, Gandhi, Niloufer and Government maternity hospitals at Pitlaburz and Sultan Bazar, and at MGM Warangal hospital.
The striking doctors, however, came under fire over the death of nine infants at Niloufer Hospital, allegedly due to poor care.
The protestors said the deaths had nothing to do with the strike and that even in the normal course such deaths occur daily because infants are brought from various parts of the state in critical condtion.
Director of Medical Education (DME) T. Raviraj said: "The services have not been affected due to the strike as we have adequate staff to treat the patients and the people who are on strike are post graduates and house surgeons."
The protests intensified on Saturday night last after doctors refused to attend emergency duties.
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