Doctors8217; stir from today

SURAT, Sept 6: Junior doctors attached to the New Civil Hospital and interns will begin their indefinite strike from Monday morning to press for increase in the stipend of junior doctors. Undergraduate students of the Surat Government Medical College have also extended their support for the strike.

The junior doctors would hold a demonstration at the Majura Gate crossroads where they will beg, polish shoes and dust cars as a mark of protest to convey the inadequacy of their stipends, which according to them is grossly insufficient. There are 270 junior doctors, 100 interns and 700 undergraduate students in the campus.

President of Junior Doctors Association, Dr Pritu Dhalaria, said the strike was is response to a call for statewide agitation by associations of junior doctors from Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Jamnagar. He claimed, while Vadodara and Jamnagar associations have already decided to join the agitation, their counterparts in Ahmedabad would soon take a decision in this regard.