Junior doctors decided to end their strike and begin work in view of holding talks with PMCH Principal N P Yadav on their grievances. The state government has given concession on some of their demands, including stipend hike, 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.
The junior doctors had demanded the removal of a PMCH Superintendent holding him responsible for the chaotic situation at the hospital, which the state government did not agree to.
Kumar said that junior doctors were broadly satisfied with assurance to tighten security measures at the hospital, rise in the number of nurses and paramedic staff and medicines in the emergency wards.
However, they were not very satisfied with the 20 per cent rise in the stipend as the same was much more in other states, he said.
Junior doctors at PMCH had launched an indefinite strike on June 14 after one of their colleagues was beaten up by the kin of a patient for alleged wrong treatment of encephalitis that caused his death.
