Lucknow, Mar 6 (KMW):The five-day long strike by junior doctors in Uttar Pradesh was called off today following directives of the Allahabad High Court yesterday. Office bearers of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) confirmed here today that the junior doctors have decided to call off their strike and return to work from this morning.
“The agitating doctors were satisfied with the courts directives who had ordered a judicial probe into the clash between the junior doctors of Kanpur and the supporters of the local SP MLA Irfan Solanki on February 28,” they claimed. The court has also removed the SSP of Kanpur last night.
The doctors of all the government hospitals went on a strike from March 1 in protest against the arrest of 24 junior doctors of Kanpur and police lathicharge on them on behest of the SP MLA.
Taking a suo moto cognizance of the news reports published in daily newspapers about the pan-state strike of junior doctors in State Medical Colleges and King George’s Medical University following the misbehavior of an MLA of Kanpur with them, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, had yesterday, directed the state government to conduct a judicial inquiry asking the government to ensure transfer of senior police officers including the SSP, Kanpur immediately.
In response to the HC ruling the state governement had invoked Essential Services Maintainace Act (ESMA) last night on the striking doctors. (Agencies)
