Kanpur:
Doctors across hospitals in the city continued their agitation on Thursday and boycotted work for one full day to protest the arrest of their colleagues on the charges of issuing fake medical certificates on payment.
At least 1,300 doctors, under the aegis of Indian Medical Association (IMA), went on strike from 10 am to 5 pm demanding the release of the three arrested doctors.
Due to the strike, several patients complained of facing problems as no one was attended to and no new patients were admitted in the hospitals where only the emergency department was open.
Three doctors and a compounder of different government hospitals were arrested on Saturday after a local news channel allegedly caught them issuing fake medical certificates to fit persons on payment in a sting operation.