India, Jan. 6 -- The Mohan Charan Majhi government on Tuesday invoked the Odisha Essential Services (Maintenance) Act to prohibit strikes by doctors and medical staff across all government healthcare facilities as doctors intensified their two-hour long cease-work demanding parity in remuneration with central government doctors, proportionate cadre restructuring across all grades and incremental incentives for super specialists, specialists among others.

The order covers doctors, nursing officers, pharmacy officers, paramedics, technicians, and Class-III and Class-IV employees, including contractual staff, working in government hospitals, medical colleges, and autonomous health institutions receiving state grants, an order by the state g...