After the patients of Gandhi hospital, it is Osmania General Hospital’s patients’ turn to endure strike, as the medicos at Osmania Medical College (OMC) have served a strike notice on authorities to protest against irregularities in posting for one-year mandatory rural service.
All the medical services at in-patient, emergency and outpatient departments at Gandhi hospital was hit by strike till Thursday. And now similar boycott is planned by junior doctors of Osmania General Hospital from Saturday.
Irregularities in posting diploma medical students to rural areas have not been addressed by authorities, complain APJUDA members. They alleged that the preferred choice of junior doctors, including the meritorious rankers, was ignored during allotment of postings in rural areas.