Patients wait outside KEM Hospital as doctors started getting back to work on Friday night. File Pic

After six days of struggle, while patients finally have a reason to smile, it's the doctors who are back at work that now have to face even tougher conditions, with a massive backlog of patients waiting to be attended to. On Saturday alone, the footfall of patients at the city's major hospitals rose by nearly 30 per cent. This figure will only increase over the coming days.