New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Over 300 medical students and some junior doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital, on hunger strike since Tuesday demanding better hostel facilities, Wednesday decided to call off their protest.
‘We have now decided to go on a silent strike. We will now boycott our classes, but attend to patients and allow the opening of out-patients department from tomorrow (Thursday) as we don’t want them to suffer,’ Karan Vats, president of the Students Welfare Association of the Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC), told IANS.