The government doctors began the strike in the morning hours, but it was withdrawn by around noon. On Thursday, nearly 16,000 government doctors across the state had gone off-duty for two hours to protest what they called "bureaucratic interference in their work and promotions".
After observing mass leave on Friday, resident doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run dispensaries/polyclinics and Hindu Rao Hospital are planning to go ahead with an indefinite strike from Monday to highlight the issue of non-payment of salaries on a timely basis.
Delhi: Not having received their salaries for three to four months, doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital held a general body meeting of their association on Friday, where it was unanimously decided to go on an indefinite strike from March 22.
Hundreds of critically ill patients admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were left unattended for hours on Monday as the hospital’s nurses went on an indefinite strike at around 3pm to press for their demand to rectify an anomaly in the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendation, among others.
The AIIMS Nurses Union, protesting for the past three days over poor working condition, on Wednesday warned the administration that they would go on an indefinite strike from June 15 if their concerns were not addressed.
The nurses under Kerala State United Nurses Association (UNA) have started indefinite strike in KVM multi specialty hospital in Cherthala. The hospital is now functioning under the police security.
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