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Junior doctors continue strike despite warnings
Bhopal, Aug 06: Unfazed by the warning from authorities, junior doctors in Madhya Pradesh continued their indefinite strike for the third-day today demanding cut in examination fees and hike in stipend even as the stir caused agony to patients in medical college hospitals.
Bhopal, Aug 06: Unfazed by the warning from authorities, junior doctors in Madhya Pradesh continued their indefinite strike for the third-day today demanding cut in examination fees and hike in stipend even as the stir caused agony to patients in medical college hospitals.
Health services further worsened across the state as around 600 under-graduate students in five medical colleges also joined the agitation to press the three-point charter of demands which included regularisation of post-graduate medical examinations.
Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) general secretary Dhirendra Singh told a news agency that the strike would continue till all the demands were accepted, despite warning of disciplinary action by the state government. The government, which reviewed the situation arising out of the strike, issued notices to striking doctors asking them to resume duty forthwith or face disciplinary action.
To this, Singh said “We are not bothered about any such warning. Our demands are just and genuine and the strike will go on till the government fulfils them.”
Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has said that the increased examination fees in Madhya Pradesh are still much less than that charged in states like Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.
Moreover, the money raised from fees does not come to the government coffer and is used for enhancing facilities in medical colleges, he added.
The strike has already been declared illegal by the Medical Education Department of Madhya Pradesh which has warned of stern action against the striking doctors.
Justifying the revision in tuition fees in medical colleges, the state government said late this evening that it has been done in the light of a Supreme Court judgement in T M a Pai Foundation vs Karnataka government. The revised fees would be applicable only to students getting admission for 2003-04 academic session, an official statement said.
Bureau Report
Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) general secretary Dhirendra Singh told a news agency that the strike would continue till all the demands were accepted, despite warning of disciplinary action by the state government. The government, which reviewed the situation arising out of the strike, issued notices to striking doctors asking them to resume duty forthwith or face disciplinary action.
To this, Singh said “We are not bothered about any such warning. Our demands are just and genuine and the strike will go on till the government fulfils them.”
Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has said that the increased examination fees in Madhya Pradesh are still much less than that charged in states like Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.
Moreover, the money raised from fees does not come to the government coffer and is used for enhancing facilities in medical colleges, he added.
The strike has already been declared illegal by the Medical Education Department of Madhya Pradesh which has warned of stern action against the striking doctors.
Justifying the revision in tuition fees in medical colleges, the state government said late this evening that it has been done in the light of a Supreme Court judgement in T M a Pai Foundation vs Karnataka government. The revised fees would be applicable only to students getting admission for 2003-04 academic session, an official statement said.
Bureau Report