Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam   

Doctors to continue protest

VISAKHAPATNAM: The AP Government Doctors’ Association will continue its protest against attacks on doctors, according to association AMC, KGH and Peripheral Hospitals’ president M. Shyam Prasad. However, emergency services will not be affected.

In the talks held at Hyderabad on Sunday following attacks on junior doctors and to resolve the deadlock, the AP Government Doctors’ Association was not involved, it is learnt.

Meanwhile, medical services are likely to come to a standstill with the doctors of corporate hospitals and nursing homes deciding to join the agitation on Monday.

The doctors of KGH continued their protest for the second consecutive day on Sunday. However, duty doctors attended. KGH emergency and casualty services were not affected.

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