Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Dec 15, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, Dec 15, 2003 |
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Health AP: Medicos vow to continue stir Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Dec.14 ABOUT 11,000 junior doctors and house surgeons, who launched an indefinite strike on Friday demanding that the Government withdraw "anti-people policies in the health sector", warned that they would not budge until their demands were met. The striking junior doctors, who formed Andhra Pradesh Junior Doctors' Association for the purpose, alleged that the State Government was privatising and commercialising medical education and denying access to the poor and middle-class students. Terming the G.O. M. S. No 90 as anti-people, the junior doctors said it called for setting up of `developmental societies' in all the medical colleges, health institutions and hospitals."This is to pave the way for handing over the institutions to private sector," Mr Suresh Kumar, Convener of APJUDA, said. Addressing newsmen here today, he said the agitators exempted emergency services from the purview of the strike. "People are required to pay user charges right from getting an out-patient form. People will understand the consequences slowly. But, as junior doctors, we understand its manifestations better," he said. The junior doctors were also protesting against introduction of three per cent NRI seats in MBBS and 25 per cent in post-graduate courses. Referring to the high-level Task Force headed by Prof G. Sham Sunder, former vice-chancellor of NTR Health University, Mr Suresh Kumar said the doctor-population ratio in the State was higher at 1:1,587 as against the national average of 1:1,800. "Notwithstanding the figures, the State Government is hell-bent on issuing licences to private parties to open medical colleges," he alleged. Meanwhile Ms R. Sasiprabha, Director of Medical Education, said the work was not affected in the hospitals. "We have taken contingency measures to meet shortfalls, if any," she told Business Line.
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