While the situation has further worsened by the police baton-charge, tear gas shelling, over hundred doctors put behind the bars in different police stations of the city went on a hunger strike.

The situation has provoked even the private hospitals’ doctors also to joint the striking government hospitals doctors, while the work in all private/government hospitals even in OPDs and in emergency departments have come to a standstill, but the senior doctors, professors and young doctors continued providing emergency services to the ailing humanity in a tent erected outside the locked emergency departments.

On the other hand, the patients in the city were facing severe difficulties due to doctors’ protest strikes.