Hyderabad: Doctors protesting an order allowing ‘lower rank’ officials to inspect the Government General Hospital Nalgonda called off their strike late on Friday. The development followed Nalgonda collector limiting the order to only cover infrastructure-related inspections.Doctors in hospitals and medical colleges across the state had joined the protests that were launched on Thursday. They were demanding a revocation of the order by the collector that allowed officials from various departments to monitor day-to-day functioning at Government General Hospital Nalgonda. On Friday, protests were held across several districts including Nizamabad, Adilabad and Siddipet with doctors wearing black badges to duty. “Black badge protests were held at 26 medical colleges in support of doctors at the Government General Hospital Nalgonda. Finally, the collector accepted the demand to revise the order and has decided to restrict it to infrastructure issues. We have stopped protest following the decision,” said Dr Kiran Bollepala, president, Telangana Teaching Government Doctors’ Association (TTGDA).At the Nalgonda hospital, doctors and other staff had boycotted duties for the second day on Friday. A visit to the hospital by the deputy collector a day ago had remained unfruitful as it had further agitated the protesters. During that visit, which was for a completely different reason, the official replying to a query said inspections were not meant to target doctors, but to monitor other hospital staff. “Patient care has been hit in a big way over the past two days. Many had to return without treatment as doctors were protesting and it impacted elective procedures and surgeries,” said a hospital source.

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