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Early Times Report
Jammu, Sep 17: The only private medical college and hospital of Jammu today appeared like a shut and abandoned shop, but not without handful of panicked patients, as doctors and teachers went on strike demanding hike in salary and other emoluments par with their counterparts in the government hospitals as per recommendations of the sixth pay panel.
Work at all the departments, including the Emergency and Teaching, remained paralysed with no doctor attending to the patients the largest private healthcare institution in the winter capital
''Recent developments in the institution have forced the ASCOMS Medical Teachers Association (AMTA) to resort to protest against the non-serious and non-committal attitude of the management towards our genuine and justified demands,'' a spokesperson today said.
Most of the present faculty had left their active government service after being assured the same pay scale as applicable to the Government Medical Colleges in the state at the time of recruitment.
''However, even after 10-15 years, the management is yet to fulfill its promise. Presently, the faculty is getting about 50 per cent of what their counterparts are being paid in government services,'' the spokesperson alleged.
The 750 bed hospital and teaching institution for medical sciences up to the post-graduate level, is located at Sidhara, about six km from the city.
The spokesperson said the faculty of ASCOMS is governed by the rules and regulations of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the University of Jammu.
''When Sixth Pay Commission recommendations have been implemented throughout the country as well as the state, why the management is denying same grades to its faculty?,'' he asked.
Earlier, on the call of AMTA, doctors and faculty members observed a three-day token strike from September 9 to 11 to press the ASCOMS management for their demands.
The ASCOMS management had given in writing to the Chairman, Fee Structure Committee headed by Justice G A Kuchhai that the fee structure of medical students be raised so that the institution can implement Sixth Pay Commission recommendations for its faculty and staff.
''On this plea the committee has already approved the fee hike (upto Rs one lakh per student) and the same is being charged by the management from this session,'' the spokesperson said.
''It won't be an exaggeration to say that the ASCOMS is the only college in India whose management has the highest fee structure but is paradoxically paying the lowest salary to its faculty and staff,’’ the AMTA said, asserting there was full intake of undergraduate and post-graduate students every year.
''As committed workers in healthcare delivery, we understand the problems our patients, students and public at large may face out of this development. It is only after suffering in silence for the sake of smooth running of institute and also considering moral and ethical responsibilities towards our patients and medical students, we have kept quiet over all these years,'' the spokesperson added
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