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Maharashtra government doctors on strike for
third day
Thursday April 25, 2013 02:18:02 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Around 3,500
resident doctors in government hospitals in the state continued
their strike for the third day and plan to start parallel
Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) for the benefit of poor patients, a
top office-bearer said Thursday.
"The strike continues as of now. From today (Thursday), we shall
run parallel OPDs to ensure that poor and needy patients are not
adversely affected," Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD)
president Santosh Wakchaure told IANS.
Asked whether the MARD decision could violate Wednesday's Bombay
High Court order, Wakchaure said the order pertained to a public
interest litigation filed against an MARD agitation a few months
ago.
"It does not pertain to the current agitation," Wakchaure said.
The Bombay High Court Wednesday ordered resident doctors in
government hospitals across the state to call off their two-day
strike immediately.
Wakchaure said Wednesday night that MARD would study the court
order before taking a final decision.
Nearly 3,500 medicos, including 2,000 in Mumbai, working in 14
government hospitals around the state, have struck work since
Tuesday to press for their demands, which include higher stipend
and better working conditions.
Giving their ruling in a public interest litigation filed by
social activist A. Mandaviya, a division bench comprising Chief
Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M.S. Sanklecha expressed
satisfaction that the state government had taken sufficient steps
to resolve the doctors' grievances.
The court asked the doctors to call off their protest.
The medicos, who get a stipend of Rs.31,000, have been offered
Rs.36,000; but the doctors are demanding Rs.41,000.
Apparently hitting back, Wakchaure said that the government has
started serving notices on striking doctors to vacate their
official quarters in various hospitals and medical colleges.
The government has also warned the doctors that they could face
action under the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act if
they failed to return to duty in the interest of thousands of
patients.
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