Junior doctors in medical colleges of Madhya Pradesh continued their strike despite the State government taking a decision to increase their stipend from Rs 1,000 to Rs 4,000.
The State government on Friday stated that the hiked stipend would be effective from September 1. Meanwhile, junior doctors of Hamidia hospital and Sultania ladies Hospital remained on strike. Appropriate arrangements were made by the hospital authorities in the absence of junior doctors.
President of Junior Doctors Association (JDA), Dr Adarsh Bajpai, said the stipend had been increased, but ESMA imposed on a few doctors had not been revoked due to which the strike would continued on Saturday. Earlier on July 12, the JDA had struck work and the college dean and
Director of Medical Education said the proposal of increasing the stipend along with other demands had been sent to the State government, but nothing had been done so far, which forced the JDA to strike work.