Summary:
While public hospital doctors were supporting the nationwide strike by wearing black ribbons and attending to out-patient departments (OPD) only, OPDs in private hospitals remained shut. Public hospitals witnessed a huge crowd in their OPDs because of the protest in public hospitals. Some of the city's public hospitals extended the working hours of their OPDs because of an increase in the number of patients. However, in private hospitals, only casualties and emergency cases were attended to by the doctors. The management of private hospitals said they are in solidarity with their medical staff..