Hospitals in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh have also been asked not to refer patients to PGIMER until further notice.
After staying shut for three days, the outpatient department (OPD) at the Civil Hospital here will now open on Monday as the doctors called off their strike late Saturday.
Health services remained completely paralysed in the government-run hospitals with the Punjab Civil Medical Services Association (PCMSA) boycotting the outpatient department (OPD) services against the state government’s non-committal attitude to their demands.
The strike followed a call by the Punjab Civil Medical Services Association (PCMSA), which had earlier been on a partial strike since September 9 and upped the ante on Thursday
Despite the suspension of OPD services, essential services, such as emergency care, post-mortems, deliveries, C-sections, and medico-legal examinations continued without interruption