The doctors alleged that the government promised to increase their salary in January 2018 but no decision on the matter has been taken yet. The strike will affect healthcare services across the city as outpatient and emergency departments and in ICUs will remain closed.
After the ministry's direction, the two hospital administrations have issued memorandums to their resident doctors to resume work at their respective departments.
State Home Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali spoke to the DCP of South Zone, Hyderabad Police, and instructed that a thorough inquiry be conducted into the incident and necessary action be taken, an official release said on Thursday night.
Delhi doctors' strike: The Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) at the Delhi government-run LNJP hospital has claimed that the stir has been triggered by an alleged assault on a third-year postgraduate student of Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), who was on duty on Sunday night at the emergency department.
Locals created ruckus inside New Delhi's Maharishi Valmiki Hospital over rape of 4-year-old girl. The incident comes a day after junior doctors' in Kolkata called-off their strike over violence against doctors.
On Monday morning letters were sent out to the junior doctors asking them to come and meet the West Bengal CM. Earlier the students had said that they would not agree to a closed-door meeting and that there should be a representation from all parties on the table.
The state government had earlier turned down the striking doctors' demand for the live telecast of the meeting, scheduled to be held later in the day.
The doctors said they want media's presence in the meeting for the sake of transparency to the common people as they have been the " biggest sufferers" in this strike.
Shekhar Salkar, the former chief of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Goa, who took part in the protest march, said, "Doctors were striking work in the coastal state to express solidarity with their colleagues who were recently attacked in West Bengal."
In a major development, over 200 senior doctors of various government hospitals across the state have resigned from their services to show solidarity with agitators.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) called for a nationwide protest on Friday in order to protest against the rising number of violent attacks against doctors in the country. This came after a student doctor at Kolkata’s NRS Medical College was attacked by a mob, leaving him with a serious injury.
Healthcare services at private and government hospitals in the national capital and many other parts of the country were affected on Friday with scores of doctors deciding to boycott work for a day to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in Kolkata.
"The Chief Minister is our guardian. I would request her to change her stance a bit on this issue and talk to the young doctors here. They are like your children. Please come here once and talk to them to sort out the problems," Aparna Sen said.
Abesh Banerjee, whose Facebook bio describes him as the President of KPC Medical College and Hospital, was seen at a rally holding a placard that read: "You say we are Gods!! Why Treat us like Dogs?"
The junior doctors at the NRS Medical College and Hospital - the epicentre of the protests - continued their sit-in. However, hospital gates were opened enabling normalcy of emergency services.
Healthcare services at private and government hospitals in the national capital are likely to be affected on Friday with scores of doctors deciding to boycott work for a day to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in Kolkata.
Disturbances erupted at the state-run NRS Hospital on Tuesday morning bringing the regular services to a standstill, after a junior doctor was allegedly beaten up by the kin of a 75-year-old patient who died there late on Monday night. The family members of the deceased patient alleged medical negligence.
Two resident doctors including a woman were allegedly beaten up by a patient's relatives at the state-run JJ Hospital on Saturday after a patient they were treating for gallbladder ailments passed away.
Most of the private hospitals would not operate their OPDs between 6 am to 6 pm.
Aiming to break the deadlock, the state health department had invited striking doctors for talks today. But the agitating doctors did not turn up.
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