Services at the general wards were paralysed, with senior doctors only attending to emergency cases at the out-patients' department.

Meanwhile, JDA members took out a rally on two-wheelers on Thursday and propose to polish the shoes of passers-by at the medical college campus on Friday as part of their ongoing strike.

JDA vice-president Mehul Desai said that if the number of patients at the OPD kept on decreasing because of the paucity of doctors, they would consider opening a parallel clinic soon.

In another development, an under-graduate medical student lodged a police complaint alleging that JDA members had assaulted him because he refused to take part in the strike. He said JDA members entered his room after he refused to lend his two-wheeler for the rally or take part in it.

Desai, however, dismissed the allegations, claiming that most of the students supported the stir.