"Chavan told us that he would take the desired steps in 10 days," Lahane said.

The medicos had threatened to observe No Practice Day on Tuesday demanding that the state government come out with a legislation to protect doctors against assault on them by patients or their kin.

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Tuesday was to be the first time that all government, municipal and private hospitals were to join the protest and abstain from out-patient consultation.

However, the medicos had announced that emergency departments and casualty would function normally without causing inconvenience to the public.

The doctors of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) were also to wear black badges as a symbol of support to the medicos.