Medical services in five medical colleges of Uttar Pradesh (UP) continued to be affected with the junior doctors’ strike entering its fourth day, even as government officials met the protesters on Friday asking them to resume work.

The talks between the doctors and M C Sharma, DG, Medical Education, in Lucknow, were inconclusive.

Later giving the information regarding the meeting, Anand Swaroop (Principal, GSVM college, Kanpur) said: “In the meeting, the government has made it clear that they should end their strike unconditionally. The DG, however, has assured the delegation that the non-practicing allowance of junior residents at CSMMU will be withdrawn.”

Meanwhile, the situation in Allahabad and Kanpur districts is deteriorating day by day. Three patients in Allahabad and one in Kanpur died in absence of proper medical care.  

The patients criticized the doctors to turn a blind eye and deaf ears to their miseries by not attending to the ailing persons.

In Kanpur, a 23-year-old Raju Lal, died when he could not get treatment at a government hospital on Friday morning.

Blaming the strike for his death, his father Chote Lal said: “Raju was admitted on June 27. During the strike, senior doctors rarely visited the Burns Unit and he did not receive treatment.”

Similarlly, in Allahabad’s Moti Lal Nehru Medical College and its Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital (SRN), three patients died on Friday.