On the 16th day the junior doctors call the stir off after the Chief Justice’s Bench gives the government two weeks; one account says they resume on 26 August.

The Andhra Pradesh Junior Doctors’ Association called off the strike on the 16th day on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, after the High Court ordered the State government to address the doctors’ concerns — printed on other accounts as reasonable demands — within the next two weeks. This cutting is the Tuesday call-off. It is not a rewrite of the already-shipped Monday talks-fail and lunch-motion public-interest-litigation card. No new stipend government order sits on this desk.

The resume clock is not one clock. Association president U. Eswar Shankar said all protesting doctors would resume duties from 26 August 2026 in accordance with the High Court order, which was yet to be uploaded online. A second public account says doctors called off the strike and resumed duties on Tuesday evening. A third public account says the Bench directed junior doctors to report immediately, said it would issue further directions if they failed, asked them to respond by afternoon, and later appreciated the call-off, saying abstaining from work was unacceptable. This desk will not collapse a 26 August resume into Tuesday evening without the label. Twenty-six August is live today.

The order followed a public interest litigation filed on 24 August by Guduri Venkata Ravindra Kumar of Singarayakonda, Prakasam district — printed Guduri Venkata Ratna Kumar on one account — seeking a mandamus for uninterrupted medical services and an effective contingency and alternative staffing mechanism. The case came up Monday before a Bench including Chief Justice Lisa Gill; the order came Tuesday before Chief Justice Lisa Gill and Justice Challa Gunaranjan — also printed Chall Gunaranjan. Both petitioner-name forms stay on the page. A delegation met Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav and Health Secretary G. Veerapandian — also printed G. Veera Pandian — at the Secretariat on Tuesday.

The minister said the government was yet to take a final decision on increasing retirement age; officials had only examined it given a shortage; “The government will now reconsider the matter.” A special committee headed by Veerapandian would meet the Association within the next two days on stipend. The government would also reconsider appointing Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy candidates to non-clinical departments; no final decision yet. A second public account of the minister says the committee would meet in one or two days; that the government would compare stipends in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana before a final hike decision; and that retirement age and the non-clinical appointments would be reconsidered. Reconsider is the verb. A hike gazette is not on this card.

Headcount and private-doctor numbers stay labelled. One public account says the strike ran 16 days; emergency services were withdrawn from 17 August; more than 9,000 doctors took part; and the government had appointed 289 private doctors under the Directorate of Public Health and 190 under the Directorate of Secondary Health. Another public account, quoting the minister, says nearly 9,500 junior doctors working in government hospitals. More than 9,000 and nearly 9,500 are not merged.

The stipend still in court is the Tuesday Advocate-General line, not Monday’s already-shipped arithmetic. Advocate-General Dammalapati Srinivas said a committee had been constituted; the government had agreed to a 10 per cent hike for house surgeons and 3 per cent for postgraduate resident doctors and super-speciality; junior doctors were seeking a minimum 15 per cent, he said. Petitioner’s counsel Yaragorla Tagore Yadav cited National Medical Commission norms that absence for two consecutive days could be treated as serious indiscipline and could result in debarment and cancellation of registration. Association counsel Bhima Maharshi Reddy — also printed B. Maharshi Reddy — said several representations had had no proper response. Ten per cent, 3 per cent and a 15 per cent ask are the Advocate-General’s Tuesday figures. They are not a gazette. This desk will not back-merge Monday’s 20 per cent demand, an earlier 13 per cent line, or an Advocate-General annual-burden rupee figure that sat on Monday’s card and is not on these Tuesday cards.

Amaravati and Vijayawada hold the High Court, the Secretariat and the teaching-hospital geography. Form B and any poll date are not notified.

Until the two-week window and the stipend committee write a government order, the public ledger is a Tuesday 16th-day call-off; a High Court direction to resolve reasonable demands within two weeks; a resume written as 26 August on one account, Tuesday evening on another, and report-immediately on a third; more than 9,000 against nearly 9,500; 289 and 190 private appointments; emergency withdrawn from 17 August; a 10 per cent / 3 per cent offer against a 15 per cent ask as the Advocate-General put it; and no new stipend gazette. The stir is called off. The hike is not written.