The protesting medicos on Monday decided to further intensify their strike if the State government does not relent and accede to its demand on retracting the one-year mandatory rural service. The striking medicos, who continued to boycott emergencies and other elective duties at Osmania General Hospital (OGH) and MGH Government Hospital in Warangal, have threatened to boycott emergencies even in Gandhi Hospital.
The junior doctors have set a 48-hour deadline to the State government. “We will also boycott emergencies at Gandhi Hospital if the government does not go back on its decision on rural service,” the medicos said. Meanwhile, patients continued to suffer, as medical services in all the government hospitals in Hyderabad and elsewhere in Telangana were crippled due to medicos boycott.
