The medical and health services here were paralysed due to indefinite strike of State Employees Joint Federation from Thursday and Uttarakhand Diploma Pharmacist Association who have been boycotting work since October 14.
The Uttarakhand lab Technicians Association, which is affiliated to State Employees Joint Federation also jumped into the fray, going on an indefinite strike from Thursday. The lab Technicians' Association district unit claimed that all lab technicians of Pauri district hospital, Pauri women's hospital, joint hospital Kotdwar, joint hospital Srinagar, Srinagar base hospital and medical college have gone on an indefinite strike. The protesters locked the pathology lab in the aforementioned places. The strike of lab technicians caused major inconvenience to the public. As part of their state-wide agitation, the Uttarakhand Diploma Pharmacists had begun work boycott from October 14. The work boycott hours have been increased to three hours daily after which they plan to boycott work for 72 hours from October 21. In Pauri, the employees of Rural Development, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forest, Animal Husbandry, Gram Panchayat and other departments boycotted work.