Over 400 doctors to stay off work on Monday

  • | Sunday | 23rd April, 2017

Over 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.

more-in Over 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. However, the protest will be done in a manner that emergency services will not be affected. TNGDA district president N. Ravishankar said that those going on casual leave will include doctors attached to Government-run primary, secondary and tertiary level hospitals. Office bearers of TNGDA said that senior professors and duty doctors will attend emergency cases at Government hospitals on Monday. While the strike may affect outpatient consultations, emergency services at casualty, trauma ward and intensive care unit will not be affected by the protest. In its notice calling for the casual leave protest, TNGDA office bearers said that “It is a do or die situation. If not today then never”. “Medical services in government hospitals in rural areas will be affected in the future if the service quota is not restored. Doctors come forward to work in remote localities in Government sector expecting to get this 50 % service quota for PG admissions,” said Dr. Ravishankar.

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