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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday came down heavily on the protesting resident doctors and said "enough is enough".
“Enough is enough. Now, the government can’t sit quiet. We cannot leave patients to die. Despite accepting all the demands, the doctors are not ready to withdraw their strike. They are forcing us to take a harsh step,” Fadnavis said in the Legislative Assembly.
“I will along with medical education minister Girish Mahajan and public health minister Deepak Sawant will again request them to call off the strike immediately as the government has accepted all demands,” he said.
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“Even after that, if they do not resume the duty, the state government will initiate legal action against them,” he added.
With the doctors not returning to work, functioning of the OPDs and general wards in the government and the civic hospitals are severely affected on Friday as well.
Reports suggested that the resident doctors in Maharashtra are yet to resume work despite an appeal by an association representing them to join duty and intervention of the Bombay High Court.
The state government on March 22 had given strong warning to the protesting doctors and asked them to resume duty or face action.
"Those doctors who don't return to work by 8 pm on Wednesday will lose 6 months' salary," state Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan had said.
The Bombay High Court had on Thursday asked the agitating doctors to resume duties and urged them give some time to the government to provide them proper security.
For the fifth consecutive day on Friday, over 3,000 resident doctors continued their mass casual leave protesting against growing incidents of attacks by patients' relatives on them.
Medical services in 17 government hospitals in Maharashtra, including four in Mumbai, were severely affected because of the strike.
Thousands of patients have been deprived of medical care in the wake of the protest across the state.
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