A stir by some 3,000 junior doctors in Madhya Pradesh entered its seventh day on Sunday with a delegation of the protesters and state medical education minister Vishwas Sarang meeting to end the stalemate.
Junior doctors of Madhya Pradesh, protesting for a week for higher stupend and Covid-treatment facilities, today received major support from their colleagues in the national capital who stepped out holding placards and lighting candles.
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Resident doctors of Delhi's Safdarjung hospital held a candle march on Sunday in support of the junior doctors in Madhya Pradesh who are protesting over demands including an increase in the stipend.
IMA in a recent statement has said it is appalled by the intimidation tactics by Madhya Pradesh administration against doctors. It has said that it will stand in support of the junior doctors and has demanded the state government to look into it.
Some 3,500 junior doctors working in six government medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh have resigned, a worrying development in the middle of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.