AP: PHC doctors continue stir to revoke GO 85
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2024-09-20 17:30 GMT
Vijayawada: Government doctors working in primary health centres (PHCs) are on protest in a peaceful manner all over the state with an appeal to the state government to revoke the GO 85 dealing with reduction of in-service quota for PG admission to 15 per cent from 30 per cent and 30 per cent from 50 per cent in clinical and non-clinical subjects.
Though the agitating PHC doctors were called for a meeting and the minister for health Satya Kumar Yadav had given assurances on several issues, the doctors remained unhappy for the reason that nothing was given in writing to them.
They claimed that nearly 3,500 doctors were involved in the issue and unless there is a concrete assurance from the state government on the issues raised by them, they will continue their stir in a peaceful manner. Some doctors approached the police and obtained permission to stage stir at the offices of DMHO in a peaceful manner.
Sources said it is becoming tough to control the agitating doctors to make them wait for the government decision on their appeal with regard to GO 85 and others as they are looking for various means to express their protests like staging rasta roko, bus roko and other forms of agitation.
Andhra Pradesh PHC Doctors’ Association president Dr Younis Meer said, “We are appealing to the state government to consider the issues raised by them in a positive manner as a majority of the doctors are unhappy over GO 85 and other issues.”
Meanwhile, health commissioner C. Hari Kiran asked the PHC Doctors’ Association president Dr Younis Meer that the state government was looking at their issues in a positive manner and there was a need to resolve the issues through negotiations in a spirit of mutual accommodation. He advised PHC doctors to resume their duties immediately to ensure uninterrupted public healthcare services.
Sources said it is becoming tough to control the agitating doctors to make them wait for the government decision on their appeal with regard to GO 85 and others as they are looking for various means to express their protests like staging rasta roko, bus roko and other forms of agitation.
Andhra Pradesh PHC Doctors’ Association president Dr Younis Meer said, “We are appealing to the state government to consider the issues raised by them in a positive manner as a majority of the doctors are unhappy over GO 85 and other issues.”
Meanwhile, health commissioner C. Hari Kiran asked the PHC Doctors’ Association president Dr Younis Meer that the state government was looking at their issues in a positive manner and there was a need to resolve the issues through negotiations in a spirit of mutual accommodation. He advised PHC doctors to resume their duties immediately to ensure uninterrupted public healthcare services.