The striking junior doctors, who had boycotted their clinical duties and academic sessions for the past two months, now have exactly 48 hours, to decide on continuation of medical strike.
The copy of the High Court order, directing the medicos to resume their normal duties from the date of receipt of the order copy, was delivered to them on Thursday afternoon.
The Director of Medical Education (DME), Telangana, Putta Srinivas, held another round of formal talks with the representatives of junior doctors and urged the striking doctors to join regular duties and promised to consider their demands.
Talking to press persons after the meeting, Dr. Putta Srinivas maintained that the HC directives will be followed. “The Government will definitely consider the demands of junior doctors sympathetically, as directed by the court order ,” he said.
In its order, a copy of which is available with ‘The Hindu’, the High Court said that ‘the association (junior doctors) has no right under any circumstances to resort to strike for getting their own demands met’.
‘We direct the Government in the event junior doctors resume their duties, the demands of junior doctors should be considered sympathetically and no penal measure shall be taken including disciplinary, to curb the said strike,’ the order of the Court said.
