Doctors hail SC order, stop short of calling off strike

Within hours of calling it off, central government-run RML Hospital on Tuesday said it will continue with its strike in solidarity with other resident doctors' bodies, which have been agitating for more than a week demanding a central law on doctors' safety in the wake of the rape and murder of a Kolkata medic.

Having called it off earlier in the day, the resident doctors of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital issued a revised statement saying the strike will continue.

"There was some miscommunication, and we apologise for the same. We want to clarify that we stand with our colleagues and other RDAs. We will make our decision only after there is a consensus among all RDAs, and the common decision of all RDAs will be our decision. We stand UNITED," the hospital's RDA said in the statement.

On Tuesday, bodies representing resident doctors from across the country welcomed the Supreme Court's intervention in the Kolkata murder case and decided to conduct a pan-India meeting for a decision on the ongoing strike.

The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association, or FORDA, and the Federation of All India Medical Association, or FAIMA, hailed the SC order and said they would conduct a meeting soon on the strike.