To save career,over 20 super specialty medicos back at work

State Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas said in a press briefing that the health services across the state has become stable in the last five days and the average number of out patients and in-patients attended to has been close to the daily average of this year.

“The health system across the state has reached near normal. With interns as well as super specialty doctors joining back,there is no urgency for resident doctors to return (to work),” he said.

The minister added that the government took a stand on the issue after holding an eight-hour long dialogue session with the residents and continuous appeal to them to call off the strike. “The decision (on increasing stipend) can only be arrived at in two months,” he added.

Meanwhile,after the Indian Medical Association,Gujarat branch and the Ahmedabad Medical Association expressed solidarity with the resident doctors,nearly 4,800 undergraduate MBBS students across the state will join the strike for 24 hours.