India, Nov. 5 -- The strike by 15,000 resident doctors in government hospitals across the state, which commenced on Monday, was called off late on Tuesday evening after chief minister Devendra Fadnavis assured protesting doctors that their all demands, including a court-monitored probe into the death of a government medical officer posted at Phaltan in Satara district, would be fulfilled.

Fadnavis met representatives of the Central Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (Central MARD) and BMC MARD - two of the four major organisations backing the protests - in the evening on Tuesday. Medical education minister Hasan Mushrif and several senior officials including Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) vice chancellor and Di...