The 5000-odd junior doctors who are mostly post graduate medical students, in government-run teaching hospitals across the state, striked on Saturday.

The state branch of the Indian Medical Association and the association of private hospitals extended their solidarity to the juniors by calling for a ‘medical bundh’ on Monday. Even clinics will be closed on the occasion.

For the second time in two weeks, doctors on duty were attacked by angry relatives after the death of a woman in the government maternity hospital here on Friday.

They were allegedly egged on by a Majlis MLA.

The relatives ransacked the hospital and bashed up doctors with whatever they could lay their hands on. A woman doctor was grievously injured on the head.

Boycotted

About 5,000 junior doctors in ten teaching hospitals attached to government-run medical colleges, boycotted their duties on Saturday demanding immediate steps to protect them, paralysing medical services across the state including Warangal and Visakhapatnam.

Even as they were protesting, another attack on a doctor took place at the ESI hospital on Saturday.

Attacked

When the doctor asked the relatives of an accident victim to go to the Osmania hospital for better treatment, they attacked him and even locked him up for sometime alleging he was being callous.

Inquiry

The State government has already ordered an inquiry into Friday’s attack but the doctors are demanding tougher measures against the legislator and others involved in the attacks.