Junior doctors’ strike enters a week without emergency services; IMA, doctors’ bodies back demands
Junior doctors in Andhra Pradesh, India, have entered their second week of strikes, halting emergency services to demand stipend revisions. Medical associations have expressed solidarity with the doctors, urging the government to engage in dialogue to resolve the crisis.
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Highlights the critical tension between healthcare worker labor rights and the maintenance of essential public health services.
Junior doctors, senior residents and interns continued their strike at government teaching hospitals across Andhra Pradesh on Sunday (August 23, 2026), while waiting for a response from the government to their demands.
It has been a week since they stopped attending to emergency services at the hospitals . The strike has also affected their academics, and they continued to take part in rallies and relay hunger strikes.
Support poured in for the doctors from the Indian Medical Association, the A.P. Government Doctors’ Association and Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV), which termed their demands genuine.
Praja Arogya Vedika president M.V. Ramanaiah and general secretary T. Kameswara Rao visited the striking doctors at the Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada, on Saturday and expressed solidarity with them.
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