Berhampur, Dec. 9: Junior doctors of the MKCG Medical College and Hospital today suspended their agitation for a month following an assurance that the government would met their demands.

The doctors, who had gone on an agitation for the last six days, resumed their work in the evening.

Chandan Gantayat of the Junior Doctor's Association (JDA) said that the decision to postpone the agitation was taken as the health service in MKCG had been badly affected.

'We have faith in the deputy secretary (health) Siba Shankar Sahu and other officials who had met the doctors on Monday evening and had assured that steps would be taken to fulfill their demands,' he said.

Senior officials of the district and representatives of the hospital were present at the meeting summoned by Sahu.

Two public representatives - Ramesh Chandra Chau Patnaik, MLA of Berhampur, and Priyanshu Pradhan, MLA of Chhatrapur, were present.

Incidentally, both the MLAs are former students of the MKCG Medical College. The JDA was represented by a 10-member delegation.

The officials told the doctors that the authorities would purchase instruments worth Rs 35 lakh and provide 10 ECG machine to the MKCG by January 20 and deploy casualty medical officer (CMO), a post abolished in January 2008.

A new central ICU will be in place within six months. There will also be infrastructure development in the paediatric ICU by March.

'We expect a major change in the infrastructure by March 31,' Gantayat said.

'Assistant professors of the departments of surgery, orthopaedics and medicine will manage the casualty as the CMO. At present, senior resident doctors were managing the show after the post of the CMO was abolished in 2008. A team of 20 security guards will also be deployed in sensitive wards,' superintendent MKCG Hospital Ashok Kumar Behera said.