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RANCHI: More than 500 doctors, including senior residents, across various state-run hospitals will wear black badges to work for a week, starting from Monday, to protest against the alleged non-payment of their arrears which are pending since 2016. The doctors have threatened to go on a strike if their demands are not met within a week.
On Sunday, the members of Junior Doctors’Association (JDA) at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), Ranchi communicated their decision to protest to the authorities concerned at the medical colleges of Hazaribag and Dhanbad while they will intimate the medical colleges in Palamu, Jamshedpur and Dumka on Monday morning.