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| Govt in spot, 300 striking medicos tender resignation | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 10- The standoff between junior doctors and government further deepened today with 300 doctors from Jammu tendering en-masse resignation on the sixth day of their strike, while their counterparts in Srinagar also suspended the work from this afternoon.
The extreme step by the striking doctors has come after government threatened to terminate fifteen doctors, all members of Doctors’ Joint Action Committee, the Association spearheading the strike.
Meanwhile, the emergency services at government medical college Srinagar came to standstill this afternoon after junior doctors also joined ongoing stir by their counterparts in GMC Jammu.
The impasse between government and doctors witnessed much hype during last one week with both sides blaming each other of resorting to pressure tactics.
While the government claims that it was seriously considering their demands, doctors allege that it has failed to meet the ultimatum of September 30 served by DJAC earlier.
“The en-masse resignation by 300 doctors is a message to government that they will not succumb to the pressure tactics adopted by the government to suppress the medicos”, Convener DJAC Dr. Satvinder Singh said.
He dared the government to come with specific time and not resort to false assurances and added that the committee has not so far received any invitation from the government to solve the issue across the table.
Terming the demands put forth by the doctors as their right, he said it was better to work outside the state if state government denies even their basic right
While the VVIP's, including top politicians in Jammu and Kashmir, receive the best possible medical care and also enjoy the privilege of getting airlifted from one hospital to other, sometimes even outside the state, when they are in need of it but when it comes to common man on the street no one in the state government is ready to break the impasse which has virtually crippled health care services in the Jammu region due to on going strike by junior doctors.
Though VVIP's and influential people are flocking private clinics for immediate care but the situation in peripheral hospitals is worrisome.
Continuous rush of patients is creating crisis for hospital authorities to accommodate large influx of patients in these medical health centres.
Almost all the district hospitals and community health centres were reporting heavy rush of patients during the ongoing strike.
On Saturday as the strike by junior doctors entered into its sixth consecutive day the miseries of patients devoid of immediate medical care compounded further.
The hospital wards wore a deserted look and the long list of patients scheduled to undergo surgeries is getting longer day by day. In the last six days senior doctors could not perform major surgeries in the absence of assistant surgeons, junior doctors, post graduate students leading to revision of schedule and longer wait for the patients to get rid of the pain.
On one hand the state government, which served final notice to the doctors to return to work on Friday, was searching for options to break the stalemate and join the dialogue table and on the other hand the junior doctors were sticking to their previous stand.
We have made it clear that this time we would not return to work till all our demands were met by the state government, spokesman of the JDA said on Saturday after taking out a procession in the GMC campus.
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