Government doctors across Haryana continued their indefinite strike for the third straight day on Wednesday, defying the state government’s decision to invoke the Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act (HESMA), 1974. The strike, led by the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association (HCMSA), has severely disrupted essential diagnostic and surgical services, causing widespread inconvenience to patients.

The association had earlier announced a two-day strike on December 8 and 9 to press for two long-pending demands — implementation of the modified Assured Career Progression (ACP) scheme and stopping direct recruitment of Senior Medical Officers (SMOs). Though the government conceded the latter, doctors extended the strike indefinitely after no progress was made on the ACP issue. They sai

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