Tamil Nadu: Demanding proper pay, promotions; 17,000 government doctors continue to strike for 4th day
Tamil Nadu: Nearly 17,000 government doctors across Tamil Nadu abstained from duties as their Strike entered its fourth day today.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that demanding time-bound promotion for government doctors and teaching faculty in the state, doctors under the aegis of Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association stopped work as well as teaching from 25th October till their demands are met.
The strike, alongside an indefinite fast by five doctors in the premises of Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital here, continued to be on.
Among other demands, protesters are demanding periodic salary raise and appointment of more doctors.
FOGDA, an umbrella outfit of five associations is spearheading the strike, urging implementation of four key demands. The fast by the doctors is to press Chief Minister K Palaniswami’s immediate intervention in the matter.
The doctors are demanding proper implementation of the DACP scheme with pay band-4 at the end of 13 years of service, maintenance of doctors’ posts in accordance with the number of patients, 50% service quota in PG medical admissions and counselling for PG postings.
Implementation of a Government Order that envisages time bound promotions, apart from ensuring appropriate patient doctor ratio in hospitals by amending another GO are among the demands. Bringing back the 50 per cent quota for government doctors in post graduate and super speciality streams is another demand.
Filling up posts and carrying out transfers through a transparent counselling process is the other long time representation of the government doctors. “We are awaiting word from the government. We want the Chief Minister’s intervention and we are ready for talks,” the FOGDA representative added.
While currently the strike includes boycott of OPD as well as teaching services with no effect on emergency services, doctors threatened that this may change.
“The government should immediately address our issue or we would be forced to discontinue the emergency services as well and the government would be responsible for that,” a FOGDA representative told ANI.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that demanding time-bound promotion for government doctors and teaching faculty in the state, doctors under the aegis of Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association stopped work as well as teaching from 25th October till their demands are met.
The strike, alongside an indefinite fast by five doctors in the premises of Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital here, continued to be on.
Among other demands, protesters are demanding periodic salary raise and appointment of more doctors.
FOGDA, an umbrella outfit of five associations is spearheading the strike, urging implementation of four key demands. The fast by the doctors is to press Chief Minister K Palaniswami’s immediate intervention in the matter.
The doctors are demanding proper implementation of the DACP scheme with pay band-4 at the end of 13 years of service, maintenance of doctors’ posts in accordance with the number of patients, 50% service quota in PG medical admissions and counselling for PG postings.
Implementation of a Government Order that envisages time bound promotions, apart from ensuring appropriate patient doctor ratio in hospitals by amending another GO are among the demands. Bringing back the 50 per cent quota for government doctors in post graduate and super speciality streams is another demand.
Filling up posts and carrying out transfers through a transparent counselling process is the other long time representation of the government doctors. “We are awaiting word from the government. We want the Chief Minister’s intervention and we are ready for talks,” the FOGDA representative added.
While currently the strike includes boycott of OPD as well as teaching services with no effect on emergency services, doctors threatened that this may change.
“The government should immediately address our issue or we would be forced to discontinue the emergency services as well and the government would be responsible for that,” a FOGDA representative told ANI.
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