UP doctors call off strike

Senior doctors in Uttar Pradesh called off their strike early on Thursday after Essential Services Maintenance Act (Esma) was invoked against them on Wednesday. The act includes "essential services" in its charter and prohibits key employees in these services from striking.

The senior doctors of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College (GSVM) in Kanpur resumed their duties at LLR hospital and six affiliated hospitals after six days of strike, which claimed 27 lives and crippled medical services across the city and state.

The doctors consulted lawyers following the Allahabad high court's directives that they should return to work or their defiance would be treated as contempt.

But junior doctors, that constitute a majority of them, are yet to take a decision. They will meet on Thursday to finalise their strategy.

The Lucknow bench of the high court on Wednesday had taken suo moto cognisance of the ongoing strike of the doctors in the state and ordered a judicial probe into the events at GSVM on February 28

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