Junior Doctors, who are agitating in the teaching hospitals of the state towards government inaction, is intensified across the state. Especially the hunger strike at the Gandhi Hospital, by six doctors, has reached the seventh day today. Four of the six doctors, on hunger strike, were admitted in ICU of Gandhi hospital. But the remaining two doctors are firm on their demands and continuing their strike. The main reasons of strike were reduction in compulsory rural service from three years to one year, hike in stipends and timely payments, enhancing the provisions of emergency and deployment of special protection force at the hospitals. The worst hits are the just born.  Though all the ten teaching hospitals are doing their best to maintain staff on call, but there are some discrepancies as per the patient’s claims.

Tension prevails in all government teaching- hospitals across the state. But mainly in the state capital the cause of concern is increasing among the patients and the doctors. The doctors claimed that the government is paying a deaf ear to their issues. They further added that the agitation would be intensified, if the government does not respond.

Meanwhile Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader E. Rajender visited the strike camp and extended his party's support to the strike. Rights activists dubbed the strike unjustified. “The doctors need protection as the relatives of patients do get emotional often and misbehave. But to neglect their duty to demand the SPF is unwarranted,” said Jeevan Kumar, convener of the Human Rights Forum. The doctors were provided SPF cover since 2009, after a spate of attacks and incidents of child lifting and kidnapping from the wards, but the commandos were withdrawn in April last year after the government reduced funds to such hospitals.(With inputs from internet-AarKay)