Haryana doctors under the banner of Haryana Civil Medical Services (HCMS) Association have withdrawn their proposed agitation on September 18 and 19 after the State Government’s assurance to look into their demands.
The Association had given a notice to go on mass casual leave on September 19 and 20, and thereafter, submit their mass resignation on September 21, if the pending demands of the doctors are not fulfilled.
The doctors had been asking the State Government to recruit more doctors to ensure quality healthcare, grant a special package to specialists, revise the promotional policy and ensure the provision of better working conditions and enhance of retirement age.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday held a meeting with the representatives of HCMS Association and assured them to fulfil their demands.
After the meeting, Vij said that HCMS Association has announced to withdraw its proposed strike on September 18 and 19and has urged all doctors in the state to continue their routine work.
The Minister said that the withdrawal of strike by the Association would ensure uninterrupted health services to the people.
All the genuine demands of the Association had been accepted in principle and these would be fulfilled at the earliest. The demands including raising the retirement age of doctors to 65 years and increasing the postmortem allowance of doctors from Rs 10 to Rs 1,000 and of Class IV employees from Rs 1 to Rs 500 are accepted, said he.
Vij added that demands to bring about changes in new PG policy, giving promotion after 10 years of recruitment of doctors by creating new posts and separate cadre of doctors on the basis of their specialization, would also be fulfilled.
The doctors had dubbed the recently issued transfer list of 475 doctors as “irrational”, demanding it be cancelled immediately. Vij had later put the doctors’ transfers on hold citing certain irregularities in the data.