Cuttack: The government on Tuesday succumbed to pressure from agitating medical students and shifted the head of SCB Medical College and Hospital's urology department Datteswar Hota to MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur.

Responding to the government's move, the SCB's Postgraduate Doctors' Union has decided to meet on Wednesday to decide on its future course of action.

Incidentally, the postgraduate doctors at MKCG Medical College and Hospital, where Hota has been shifted to, began cease work on Monday to support in solidarity with their SCB counterparts.

To press for their demand, the union had launched a hunger strike on Tuesday, the eighth day of their cease work, to intensify their agitation.

Union general secretary Phanindra Kumar Swain had said that the relay hunger strike would continue till their demand was fulfilled.

Initially, the union had started cease work to demand impartial inquiry after postgraduate students in the urology department alleged that they were being mentally harassed and abused by Hota.

The union had expected the government to take action after the report of the SCB inquiry committee was sent to it. The additional secretary, health and family welfare, Surajit Das, had on Monday visited the medical college to persuade the medicos to call off their strike.

The hospital administration has been struggling to keep the situation under control as 800 medicos, who usually shoulder bulk of the patient care is on strike.

Hospital superintendent Shyama Kanungo said: "The situation is being managed with the help of around 60 periphery doctors provided by the government."