Dhaka, March 1 -- Postgraduate trainee doctors have launch an indefinite work stoppage at various hospitals nationwide in solidarity with medical students and interns, who are protesting to press home several demands.

The strike began on Saturday.

The Doctors' Movement for Justice, an organisation of postgraduate trainee doctors, had already announced the protest action in a statement on Friday.

However, the protesting doctors have excluded emergency services, CCU, and ICU from the strike to ensure critical patient care remains unaffected.

According to Md Nurun Nabi, general gecretary of Doctors' Movement for Justice, postgraduate trainee doctors will gather at the Central Shaheed Minar at 11am on Saturday as part of the protest.

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