Medical teachers remained on mass casual leave all over the State on Wednesday to press their three-point demands. Medical teachers strike adversely affected the health services in the State.
Hamidia hospital Superintendent Dr DK Pal said that the mass leave of medical teachers did not affect the hospital’s working but very few operations and surgeries were carried out in the hospital in the absence of senior specialists. Only two operations were carried out as operations were already rescheduled in wake of the mass leave.
The OPD and admissions of the hospital also remained less than usual, only 900 patients were registered on Wednesday while the figure usually crosses 1500. Similarly only 50 patients were admitted while normally 100 patients are admitted.
Madhya Pradesh Medical Teachers Association General Secretary Dr Rakesh Malviya said that the mass leave was successful and medical teachers all over the State did not work. More than 1500 medical teachers participated in the protest for revision of pay scale.
Meanwhile in Indore, medical services were hit in MY, Chacha Nehru, and Cancer hospitals in the city as over 200 medical teachers boycotted work and teaching, by holding demonstrations in their respective workplaces.
MPMTA Indore President Dr Poonam Mathur said that medical teachers demand UGC grades and allowances since 2008, pension benefits, group insurance, arrears' payment. Dr Mathur further said that a memorandum was submitted to the Indore Medical College Acting Dean Dr Sanjay Dixit in this regard.
However, some of the faculty members did attend to emergency services. A sit-in-cum-demonstration attended by striking doctors was organised at the entrance of MY hospital, added Dr Mathur.
MY Hospital Superintendent Dr PS Thakur said that medical officers along with senior and junior resident doctors attend patients in OPDs and health services were scarcely affected.
The one-day strike was observed in all six medical colleges in the State in which over 1600 doctors took mass casual leave.