The Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS), the powerful association of Government doctors has risen in protest against the State Government’s decision to increase the retirement age of the doctors to 62 years.
The association has also demanded that the government should take back its policy of transferring hospitals located in plain areas under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode to the private hospitals and ensure that all contractual doctors are posted in the hospitals located in the mountainous areas. On the day a meeting of PMHS was organised in the state capital. In the meeting the doctors threatened that if the state government fails to meet their demands with in a time period of two weeks then they would be forced to go on an indefinite strike.
The President of the association, Dr S K Goswami said that the doctors are also agitated over conditional implementation of Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP). He said that the association would not tolerate pick and choose policy in recent transfers.
The PMHS President also questioned rationale behind allowing some doctors to remain in places of their choice on medical grounds the transfers.
He said that such ‘ill’ doctors should be transferred to other plain districts if the department finds them not fit to work in mountainous areas or should be given voluntary retirement from services.
The meeting of the PMHS was attended by general secretary of PMHS Dr N S Napalchayal, Dr Anand Shukla, Dr P K Joshi, Dr Avinash Khanna, Dr R K Singh and Dr Balbeer Singh.