Members of the Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA), a body of Government doctors in the State, have threatened to tender mass resignation on September 1 if the Government fails to ensure security to doctors in hospitals.
OMSA president Nirakar Bhatt said though the doctors are being brutally attacked by relatives of patients in hospitals across the State regularly the State Government is sitting idle on the issue.
The decision of OMSA came after two doctors were attacked in Baleswar district within the last 24 hours and also in Puri recently.
OMSA president Nirakar Bhatt said, “If the Security Bill passed by the State Government is implemented properly, doctors will be able to work and no disturbances will happen. If things still don’t work, we would go for mass resignation.”
“We are getting resignation letters from every district even now,” he said.
As per the Gazette notification issued by the Home Department in 2009, persons involved in attack on medical personnel or ransacking hospitals can be awarded a jail term of one year to three years or imposed a fine of Rs 50,000.
Meanwhile, OMSA withdrew the strike it had launched in the wake of the attack on the doctors in Baleswar after the intervention of the district administration.