JAIPUR: A day after Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) officials sealed Khandka Hospital here over commercial activity in a residential area, around 450 private hospitals in the city went on an indefinite strike terming the action as "repressive".
The hospitals stopped functioning at around 4.30 pm on Saturday for an indefinite period and pasted notices mentioning, "This hospital is on indefinite strike. No consultation and admission of patients will be done."
"Khandaka hospital is not the only hospital in the city which is situated in residential area. More than 90% of private hospitals are situated in residential areas. Today, they have sealed Khandaka hospital, tomorrow they will seal other such hospitals for commercial activities in residential areas," Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Society secretary Dr Vijay Kapoor said.
While it is for the first time that the private hospitals have gone on strike, medical services in the state have been frequently hit because of stikes called by resident doctors.
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