The ongoing strike that has crippled medical services in Uttar Pradesh, has further intensified as 24 medicos who were granted bail, have refused to come out of jail.

The 24 medicos of GSVM College Kanpur refused to sign the personal bond, which is mandatory for an inmate before he is released. The students reportedly said, they will sign the bond only if Dr Arti Lal Chandani, the IMA Kanpur chief and head of department of medicine, GSV Medical College, tells them to do so. Meanwhile, the talks between the Chief Minister and the doctors yesterday, could not end the stalemate.

Quoting the IMA President, Kanpur, Dr Arti Lalchandani, our Lucknow Correspondent reports that the strike will go on as the issue has not been resolved. Dr Aditya Patel, President of KGMU Resident Doctors’ Association said, there was no clarity in the CM’s assurance on their demands of initiating action against Kanpur SSP, Yashasvi Yadav and SP MLA, Irfan Solanki, and also about withdrawal of cases against the 24 students.

Services in the medical colleges remained severely paralysed for the fifth day all over the state. Now even the private hospitals have stopped admitting the fresh cases as they are flooded with patients who had to return from government hospitals due to strike.