Junior doctors in the southern Indian state of Kerala have called off a nine-day old strike which had forced thousands of patients to seek private medical help.

The doctors agreed to resume work after the state government said it would revoke an earlier decision to suspend four-hundred-and-fifty of their colleagues.

They were suspended for refusing to work following an incident of violence at a hospital.

The state government has also agreed to set up a committee to review working conditions for the doctors in state-run hospitals in Kerala..