NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the admissions process for 45,000 junior doctors to practice at government health facilities after a month-long protest by health workers who demanded that staff numbers be increased in the face of a rapid surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. India’s new COVID-19 cases jumped to 117,100 on Friday, a five-fold increase in
Resident doctors across Maharashtra continued with their strike against the delay in NEET-PG counselling and alleged manhandling of doctors by the police, earlier last month, even as the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association, India, called it off.
The strike was called after a meeting between the members of the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) and Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police.
Doctors in India protesting over the delay in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Postgraduate) (NEET-PG) counselling called off their 14-day strike on Friday.
The agitating resident doctors on Friday called off their 14-day long nationwide agitation over the delay in NEET-PG counselling and alleged manhandling of doctors by the police.