Following the arrest of the staffs by the local area police, hundred other agitating employees reached to the area police office and demanded to arrest them as well. The agitating staffs chanted slogans demanding the resignation of vice-chancellor, hospital director, and registrar, among others.

One Raj Kumar Bika, a local, had petitioned a writ against such strikes at the Institute at the Supreme Court arguing that the strikes had seriously affected the patients and service seekers at the Hospital. Two days ago, the SC had ordered the Hospital management to immediately resolve the issue maintaining that services in a sensitive sector like hospital should not be disrupted for long.

The aggrieved parties have been demanding the government’s decision of 18 percent salary increment and dearness allowance of one thousand be provided to them by the Institute. Institute Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr Balbhadra Prasad Das, however, said that the Institute could not provide the increment because of their weak financial situation.