Agitating junior docs take up Swachh Bharat campaign
Junior doctors, who have been on strike in Telangana for past nine days, have decided to take up relay fasts from Thursday to pressurise the government to drop the GO 107, which makes one year rural service mandatory.
To intensify stir by starting relay fasts from today
Hyderabad: Junior doctors, who have been on strike in Telangana for past nine days, have decided to take up relay fasts from Thursday to pressurise the government to drop the GO 107, which makes one year rural service mandatory. In this regard, junior doctors of Osmania General Hospital (OGH) and Gandhi Hospital will start relay fasts from Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Osmania Hospital witnessed a novel protest as doctors took up 'Swachh Osmania' campaign. They went around the wards and swept. At Gandhi Hospital, they formed a human chain around the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and submitted a memorandum to the statue.
The junior doctors are unhappy that despite their protests, Telangana government had not yet started any exercise to address their concerns. Officials said the Director of Medical Education (DME) Putta Srinivas had submitted a report to Principal Secretary Suresh Chanda, still there has been no initiative from the government to resolve the issue.
Deputy Chief Minister and Health Minister T Rajaiah is in Warangal and it seems any step forward may be taken only after the Minister returns to Hyderabad. His office in State Secretariat was found locked on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Opposition parties attacked the TRS government for deputing an official for holding talks with striking junior doctors. Telangana Congress leader Mallu Ravi told The Hans India that the government was not bothered about poor people who were suffering at government hospitals.
Meanwhile, junior doctors claimed that the one-year mandatory rural service was an entirely a creation of the undivided AP government and may not stand any more.
