Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam   

Doctors continue strike

VISAKHAPATNAM: Junior doctors in the city continued their strike for the fourth consecutive day, seeking safe working environment. About 350 junior doctors, house surgeons and post-graduate students, are on strike.

Normal medical care in the King George Hospital, Government Victoria Hospital for Women and Children (Ghosha Hospital), Regional Eye Hospital, RCD Hospital, Government Chest and ID Hospitals and ENT Hospital was affected and only emergency cases were being attended. They held a demonstration near the KGH main gate in the morning.

The junior doctors went on strike from Friday following an alleged attack on one of their colleagues at the Ghosha Hospital in the old city area by relatives of a woman who died after giving birth to a baby.

Efforts were on to convince the junior doctors to call off their strike.

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