Junior doctors in Andhra Pradesh call off 16-day strike, to resume duties on August 26
Junior doctors in Andhra Pradesh have ended a 16-day strike following a High Court order directing the state government to address their concerns. The government has formed a committee to discuss stipend hikes and staffing issues while promising to reconsider retirement age policies.
Why it matters
The resolution of this strike is critical for maintaining public health services and highlights the ongoing tensions between medical professionals and state administrative policies.
Andhra Pradesh Junior Doctors’ Association (APJUDA) has called off the strike on the 16th day on Tuesday, August 25, after the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the State government to address the doctors’ concerns within the next two weeks.
APJUDA president U. Eswar Shankar told The Hindu that all the protesting doctors would resume their duties from August 26 in accordance with the High Court order, which is yet to be uploaded online.
The order came after an individual, Guduri Venkata Ravindra Kumar, hailing of Singarayakonda of Prakasam district, filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on August 24, with a prayer for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus directing the State government to ensure uninterrupted medical services and to maintain an ‘effective contingency and alternative staffing mechanim so that patients are not compelled to suffer on account of any dispute between the medical personnel and the government’.
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