Ssl Jr Doctors Continue Strike | Varanasi News – Times of India

Varanasi: The junior and senior resident doctors of Sir Sunderlal Hospital of the Banaras Hindu University continued their strike against the Wednesday assault for the second consecutive day on Friday.
The consultant doctors also left after seeing some patients in OPD. The protesting medicos were demanding arrest of the students involved in the assault.
On Wednesday night, a group of students of different hostels had reached the emergency ward and started pressurising the junior residents to attend their patient. On being asked to wait for their turn they created ruckus and assaulted the staff present there. In protest against this assault, the junior and senior resident doctors went on strike on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the director of the Institute of Medical Sciences and the medical superintendent of Sir Sunderlal Hospital on Friday appealed to protesting doctors to resume their duties. They said that the issues raised in the letters given by the resident doctors are being forwarded to the district and university administration to resolve them on the priority basis. tnn
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