Token strike by PGI faculty

Though the rooms of the faculty members were locked, it was business as usual at the PGI. The work in the OPDs was also near-normal as the patients were attended to by resident doctors.

On why the doctors were forced to quot;break the age-old tradition of the institutequot;, Dr Ajit Awasthi of the PGI Faculty Association said, quot;The demands of the doctors have been long pending with the government. We have resented the indifferent attitude of the authorities in the past also and the one-day token strike is a way to resent the fact that the status due to us is being denied.quot; Though their counterparts at AIIMS in New Delhi are on an indefinite strike for similar reasons, the PGI doctors decided for only a day8217;s token strike.