Summary:
more-inOver 400 government doctors will stay off from duty in Coimbatore on Monday as Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA) has urged members to go for a mass casual leave protest demanding restoration of 50 % service quota for post graduation admission. In its notice calling for the casual leave protest, TNGDA office bearers said that “It is a do or die situation. Doctors come forward to work in remote localities in Government sector expecting to get this 50 % service quota for PG admissions,” said Dr.
Ravishankar. TNGDA district president N.
Ravishankar said thatthose going on casual leave will include doctors attached to Government-run primary, secondary and tertiary level hospitals. However, the protest will be done in a manner that emergency services will not be affected..