"Over 4,000 doctors abstained from work to protest the Centre's proposal to set up the NCHRH in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI) to regulate health services in the country, some anti-doctors provisions in the Nursing Home Act and to press for demand like equal pay for equal work," IMA spokesman Ranjit Kumar said.
The doctors kept the emergency services out of the ambit of their agitation, he said.