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Talks fail, medicos to intensify stir

HYDERABAD DEC.20. T alks between the Health Minister, K. Sivaprasada Rao, and the Andhra Pradesh Junior Doctors Association (APJUDA) failed today with the agitating medicos blaming the Government's `adamant attitude' being responsible for the impasse and threatening to intensify the nine-day-old indefinite strike if next round also made no headway.

Talking to reporters, Leelaprasad, joint secretary, APJUDA, and other office-bearers said that the talks failed because no assurances were forthcoming from the Government on their main demands. More than 11,000 junior doctors, house surgeons and medical students from 10 Government hospitals have been on an indefinite strike since December 12 protesting `privatisation of medical education,' setting up of house development societies and introduction of self-financing seats in undergraduate and post-graduate courses.

They criticised the Minister for adopting an `autocratic attitude' and questioning their right to go on strike, and found fault with the `wrong policies being pursued by the Government in the health sector.'

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