TN doctors continue strike, DMK chief Stalin expresses

: Government doctors affiliated to Federation of Government Doctors Association, on an indefinite stir across Tamil Nadu for the fourth day received support from DMK on Monday, with its chief M K Stalin visiting them and expressing his party's solidarity with their demands.

The strike since Friday, pressing a charter of four demands, has affected both inpatient and outpatient services in state-run hospitals.

Visiting the striking doctors in the premises of the Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital here, Stalin expressed his party's support with their demands.

"I have expressed solidarity with them. It is our right and duty to protest. But I asked them to give up their indefinite fast," Stalin told reporters.

Two of the five doctors on an indefinite fast in the premises of GRGGH were hospitalised, the DMK leader said.

It was regrettable that neither Health Minister C Vijayabaskar nor Chief Minister K Palaniswami had held talks with them, he added.

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