It was decided by the junior doctors to call off their stir and begin work after holding talks with PMCH Principal N P Yadav on their greivances as well giving concession to some of their demands, including stipend hike, by the state government, PMCH Junior Doctors' Association spokesman Rahul Kumar said.
"Though some of our demands have not been met, yet we decided to withdraw agitation in the larger public interest and that of the patients," he said, adding that the junior doctors had demanded removal of the PMCH Superintendent O.P. holding him responsible for the chaotic situation at the hospital but the state government did not agree.
Kumar said that junior doctors were broadly satisfied with assurance to tighten security measures at the hospital, rise in the number of nurses and para-medic staff and medicines in the emergency wards, but were not very satisfied with the 20 per cent rise in the stipend as the same was much more in other states.
The PMCH junior doctors had launched an indefinite strike on June 14 last after one of their colleague was beaten up by the kins of a patient for alleged wrong treatment of encephalitis that caused his death a day earlier.
