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| Photo Credit: V Sreenivasa Murthymore-inThe protesting staff of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in the city, who have shut the regular out-patient department (OPD), have set up a parallel OPD outside the hospital. People queuing up at the parallel OPD at KIMS Hospital and Research Centre on Tuesday. Junior doctors were posted in the parallel OPD and speciality-wise consultation was not provided. Meanwhile, the Vokkaligara Sangha that had convened a meeting of the protesting staff and KIMS authorities has agreed to clear the dues towards allowances of the staff. Although the protesting staff claimed that over 900 patients were seen free of cost on Tuesday, most patients were put to hardship as the parallel OPD had not been set up in an organised manner..