Date:06/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/06/stories/2008040658620300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Surgeries stopped

Demanding implementation of the Central government health scales to non-teaching doctors, doctors at Government General Hospital stopped performing general surgeries and family planning operations on Saturday. President of the Andhra Pradesh Government Doctors Association N.B. Lal, in a statement here, said that it was as part of the State-wide agitation launched by the association demanding the scales.