Senior doctors in Uttar Pradesh called off their strike early on Thursday after
Essential Services Maintenance Act (Esma) was invoked against them on Wednesday.
The act includes "essential services" in its charter and prohibits key employees
in these services from striking. The four day long strike by the junior doctors
was called off on Thursday afternoon after a general body meeting of the junior
doctors association, with the King George’s Medical University administration.
The senior doctors of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College (GSVM) in Kanpur resumed their duties at LLR hospital and six affiliated hospitals after six days of strike, which claimed 27 lives and crippled medical services across the city and state.
The doctors consulted lawyers following the Allahabad high court's directives that they should return to work or their defiance would be treated as contempt.
The Lucknow bench of the high court on Wednesday had taken suo moto cognisance of the ongoing strike of the doctors in the state and ordered a judicial probe into the events at GSVM on February 28.
The state government adhered to the court's order and attached SSP Yashasvi Yadav with the DGP headquarters.
On Thursday, 24 medical students arrested for February 28 violence were released after they signed the bail bonds. They had been granted bail on March 3 but had refused to leave the prison demanding that all the charges against them be dropped unconditionally.
Indian Medical Association (IMA) office bearers received the students at the jail gate and returned to the medical college campus where the junior doctors still haven't rejoined work. They are demanding the arrest of Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki.
Junior doctors in many parts of the state were observing a strike from March 1 after a scuffle with SP legislator Solanki led to a series of lathi charges, police raids on hostels and mass resignations by doctors across the state.
The senior doctors of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College (GSVM) in Kanpur resumed their duties at LLR hospital and six affiliated hospitals after six days of strike, which claimed 27 lives and crippled medical services across the city and state.
The doctors consulted lawyers following the Allahabad high court's directives that they should return to work or their defiance would be treated as contempt.
The Lucknow bench of the high court on Wednesday had taken suo moto cognisance of the ongoing strike of the doctors in the state and ordered a judicial probe into the events at GSVM on February 28.
The state government adhered to the court's order and attached SSP Yashasvi Yadav with the DGP headquarters.
On Thursday, 24 medical students arrested for February 28 violence were released after they signed the bail bonds. They had been granted bail on March 3 but had refused to leave the prison demanding that all the charges against them be dropped unconditionally.
Indian Medical Association (IMA) office bearers received the students at the jail gate and returned to the medical college campus where the junior doctors still haven't rejoined work. They are demanding the arrest of Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki.
Junior doctors in many parts of the state were observing a strike from March 1 after a scuffle with SP legislator Solanki led to a series of lathi charges, police raids on hostels and mass resignations by doctors across the state.
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