Mangalore : Sudatta Jain Shirthady, General Secretary of the Akhila Bharatha Karmika Sangha is on a hunger strike in front of the ESI Hospital at Kadri Shivabagh since the past six days  urging the government to fulfill various demands aimed at improving the conditions of the hospital.

Some of the demands are for the Central Government to take over the hospital and also to solve the problems of staff shortage at the hospital.

Sudatta Jain says so far no organization has supported the cause. Meanwhile, ESI officials who visited the protest venue and spoke to Sudatta  assured to bring the demands to the attention of the Deputy Commissioner.