Resident doctors in Maharashtra, who were on strike to seek a resolution of the NEET-PG counselling delay and other issues, called off their protest on Tuesday after a ‘fruitful’ meeting with the state medical education and research director, a representative of the resident doctors said. Thousands of resident doctors in the state had gone on their strike on Friday, demanding recruitment of non-academic junior resident doctors equal to the number of residents in colleges. In some of the medical colleges in Mumbai, they were on strike since last Thursday.

In a statement issued late Monday evening, Central Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) president Avinash Dahiphale said the recruitment of house officers/medical officers in all government/corporation medical colleges and hospitals as per requirement in the view of delay in NEET-PG counselling has been addressed. The ‘runanubandh bhatta’ (allowance) will be released soon for the remaining medical colleges, he said.