The Scheduled Caste and Tribe Medical Service Association submitted a memorandum to the Health Minister, Rustam Singh, for the upgradation of the health services in the State, on Monday.
While talking to the mediapersons here on Monday, Association Executive Committee member Dr Hemant Gautam said that the doctors of the reserved category have to pass through many difficulties as they belong to poor family background. The doctors are working under pressure due to various departmental reasons. They are working under immense pressure, as there is shortage of doctors in the hospitals.
The demands of the association included: Doctors and the para-medical staff should provide their services in the rural areas as well as in the urban areas for a fixed duration, Chief Medical and Health Officer should be posted permanently through promotion, reservation rules should be followed in the posting of the officer, senior doctors should be promoted as specialists, after promotion, the junior doctors should be posted as District Health Officers (DHOs), vacant posts of the doctor should also be filled immediately and the various problems of the doctors should be executed immediately.
Gautam further said that the post of the RMO in the district hospitals should be sanctioned as Class I and administrative post. Besides, his financial rights and work should be defined.
Gautam further added that like in Uttar Pradesh, private practice should be made optional for the doctors and NPA should be paid to the doctors who do not opt for practice.
The association’s State president Dr Suresh Kumar, treasurer Dr Hemant Kadam, general secretary Dr Naveen Naagar, secretary Dr Arun Singh, Executive Committee member Dr Hemant Gautam, Dr SK Verma, Dr RC Verma, Dr CB Arya, Dr SS Verma along with the other office bearers of the association remained present on the occasion.