Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Doctors in Uttarakhand boycott OPDs, threaten to resign en masse

Dehra Dun, Feb 16 Government doctors in Uttarakhand today did not attend OPDs, pressing their demands of non practice allowance and ending anomalies in promotion policy and threatened to resign en masse if these issues were not addressed.

"We boycotted OPDs across the state. We are demanding 25 per cent non practice allowance which the doctors under several states and central government get,"said Dr D P Joshi, General Secretary of State Medical Service Federation.

Joshi said that doctors across the state are demanding an to end to anomalies in their promotion policy.

Meanwhile, he said state Health Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank have assured the federation delegation that the demand will be placed before the cabinet on February 18.

"If the promise is not fulfilled then the doctors will boycott medical services fully from February 19. And on February 24, they will handover their resignations en masse to the government," Joshi said.

Soruce: http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/503719/National/1/20/1

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