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| Healthcare collapsing, medicos not relenting | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU | OCT 16, 2009
Health care services were badly affected in Jammu and Kashmir today as the doctors' strike continued for the 13th day running in protest against the government not fulfilling their demands.
Work was paralysed in Government Medical College and several hospitals due to the strike called by Doctors Joint Action Committee (DJAC), officials said, adding emergency services, however, were being run by senior doctors.
The medicos held a protest demonstration and a rally inside the GMC hospital complex and demanded immediate fulfillment of their demands.
Their demands include implementation of the 6th Pay Commission recommendations, one grade pay higher than 10+2 lecturers and change of pay band of doctors from pay band two to pay band three.
The state government has so far issued notices for dismissal to 27 junior doctors who failed to resume duties.
The strike would continue till the government does not accept the demands, a spokesman for DJAC, Dr Neeraj Sharma, said.
He said the decision to go for indefinite strike was taken after the committee felt the government did not fulfill the demands by September 30, which was the fixed deadline.
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