Khulna doctors' strike protesting the "attack" on one of their colleagues by a policeman and others entered its third day on Friday. Healthcare services came to a grinding halt at all government and private hospitals, except for emergency care, in the district due to the strike, causing immense suffering to patients and others. Read more: Assault on Khulna physician: Strike by doctors makes patients suffer Dr Baharul Alam, president of the Khulna unit of the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), said a high-level delegation of the Directorate General of Health Services already arrived in Khulna to discuss the withdrawal of the strike. "The delegation will hold a meeting with the BMA, clinic owners and physicians to address the issue," he said. Healthcare seekers said the appointments with specialist physicians, who come from Dhaka and practice privately at clinics, were cancelled on Thursday night due to the strike as the physicians "expressed solidarity with the protesters."