DW BUREAU IN response to the appeal made by Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh to the employees throughout the state to call off their strike, Punjab State Medical and Dental Teachers Association (PSMDTA) has made a counter appeal to the Chief Minister to accept all genuine demands of the government doctors without any delay in public interest and restore the health and medical services so that sufferings of the poor and needy patients can come to an end. Meanwhile, the indefinite protest by medical and dental colleges and Rajindra Hospital here entered the sixth day today with department wise sit-in protest of ten faculty members daily along with action committee members for three hours with complete closure OPD services and elective surgeries in Rajindra Hospital, boycott of all administrative duties and classroom teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of the medical students. According to Dr. DS Bhullar, State General Secretary of PSMDTA, the statewide protest of medical and dental teachers along with all other government doctors will continue till their demands were accepted which included restoration of NPA to 25 percent and linking it with basic pay as earlier with Dearness and House Rent allowances made applicable to basic pay and NPA. The government doctors have decided to organize a massive rally on July 29 in Government Medical College Patiala with participation of faculty of medical and dental college, PCMS doctors of Patiala, resident doctors of medical college, doctors from Chest and TB Hospital Patiala, members of Indian Medical Association Patiala and medical and dental students along with some very senior retired PCMS doctors and medical teachers. (editor@dailyworld.in)