200 Junior doctors in Agra quit over Kanpur row with SP MLA

| Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 18:17 [IST]

Kanpur, March 4: 200 junior medicos of Agra Medical College have resigned over the doctors' stir that started in Kanpur. [Also read: Pictures : Samajwadi Party MLA and his staff beaten up by junior doctors]

The development came as the protest against the attack on junior colleagues in Kanpur entered the fifth day today crippling medical services in the district.

"The strike of junior doctors will continue till the three demands of the Kanpur doctors were met," said vice president of Indian Medical Association's UP unit and president of Agra unit Dr Sudhir Dhakre.

Dhakre, said the IMA has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the state government to meet the doctors' demands, otherwise the strike would take an all India dimension.

The three demands of Kanpur junior doctors include the unconditional release of doctors arrested in connection with the Kanpur episode; registering criminal cases against SP MLA Irfan Solanki, and dismissal of SSP, Kanpur.

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