Senior resident docs boycott services
Senior resident doctors in nearly 700 hospitals across the state continued their strike over unpaid stipends on Friday.
In addition to boycottingelective services, they also boycotted emergency services.
On Friday morning, about 200 senior residents gathered and protested at Gandhi Hospital demanding payment of pending salaries from November 2021, remuneration for the month of May 2021 during the second wave, and clarity on termination of their senior resident terms.
On Thursday, health minister T. Harish Rao directed the officials concerned to clear the doctors' pending dues as soon as possible. However, the doctors said they would continue the protests until the payments were made and all three of their demands were met.
Telangana Junior Doctors’ Association (TJUDA) extended support to the protest. “We, TJUDA stand in support with our fraternity, i.e., TSRDA (Telangana Senior Resident Doctors’ Association) and we request the government to pay heed to their three demands and look into solving the issues in a peaceful manner,” it said in a release issued here on Friday.
TJUDA president Dr Karthik Nagula said the association had not yet decided whether to actively join the senior residents’ strike.
In most government medical hospitals, senior residents make up roughly one fourth of the doctors, so their absence did not affect patients to a large extent on Friday. On Monday, nearly 700 senior resident doctors from 21 hospitals in Hyderabad will assemble at one place and carry on the protest.
ON MONDAY, nearly 700 senior resident doctors from 21 hospitals in city will assemble for protest.