“It will affect higher education plans and job opportunities”
Demanding service: General secretary of Indian Doctors for peace and Development, Arun Mitra, addressing a workshop in Tirunelveli on Sunday.
TIRUNELVELI: The Doctors’ Association for Social Equality (DASE) has urged the Centre to drop its plan to introduce compulsory rural medical service scheme, “as it would badly affect the higher education plans of medical students and their job opportunities.”
A resolution to this effect was adopted in the seminar organised here by the DASE on Sunday.
In the name of compulsory rural medical service, the Government of India is planning to spurn new job opportunities and their prospects of getting higher education. Presently, various institutions across the country are producing 29,000 doctors every year, which will cross 40,000 in near future.
The compulsory rural medical service scheme will effectively deny the young doctors job opportunities as they will be posted in a village for a meagre salary. Hence the Union Government should drop its compulsory rural medical service plans, the resolution said.
Another declaration said that appointment of doctors should be made on permanent basis while upwardly revising their salary. Doctors working in hilly regions should be given appropriate salary with right incentives. Preference in promotion and additional marks in post-graduate entrance examinations should be given to the doctors working in regional hospitals and health centres being managed by the Government.
Plans to increase the course duration from five-and-a-half years to six-and-a-half years should be dropped. Starting of small clinics and medicare institutions by the corporates should be banned it said.
Pressing these demands, the doctors will wear black badges on September 3 and go on a one-day token strike on September 5.
The General Secretary of Indian Doctors for Peace and Development, Arun Mitra, inaugurated the seminar with the president of DASE, Tirunelveli district, P. Durai, presiding over the programme. The State Treasurer of DASE, Mohan, State Executive Committee member, D. Aram, the State Joint Secretary of Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangangalin Paeravai, M.R. Subramanian, and others addressed the seminar.
General Secretary of DASE, G.R. Ravindranath, delivered the valedictory address.
From http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/27/stories/2007082760180600.htm
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