Major private hospital doctors in Hyderabad will abstain from work on Saturday due to the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata.

On Friday, Telangana saw a surge in protests against the purported rape and murder of a trainee physician in Kolkata, with local doctors refusing to provide outpatient and elective care. Private hospital physicians also joined the demonstrations today, declaring that they would no longer be providing elective and outpatient care. Important corporate hospitals have announced that their outpatient and elective services will be suspended for 24 hours starting at 6 am on Saturday. These hospitals include Apollo Hospitals, Yashoda Hospitals, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital, and the state-run Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS).

Today's protests were carried out by all the major associations that represent senior government doctors, faculty, non-clinical staff, nurses, senior residents, junior doctors, and nurses in government hospitals. The boycott is scheduled to last one more day, on Saturday and Sunday. The call for a boycott forced the postponement of elective surgeries at Gandhi Hospital, Osmania General Hospital (OGH), and NIMS, while the emergency and casualty wings continued to operate as usual. The lack of medicos had an impact on healthcare services at Gandhi and Osmania Medical College's OP wings, as senior doctors who wore black badges to report for duty attempted to make up for the shortage. Subsequently, senior physicians from Gandhi Hospital and OGH also participated in protests for an hour after abandoning their regular medical responsibilities.

The Telangana Junior Doctors Association, TTGDA, AIFGDA, TGDA, and NIMS Resident Doctors Association's ongoing boycott caused more than 200 elective surgeries scheduled at Gandhi Hospital and OGH on Thursday and Friday to be postponed. Following the decision by the NIMS Resident Doctors and Nurses union to participate in the boycott, the hospital administration declared that OP services would be discontinued and elective surgeries would be rescheduled. All public and private hospitals will still provide emergency and casualty care, though.