Increasing the problems of the state health department fighting a grim battle on the Covid-19 front, the doctors of the state health services have decided to boycott the OPDs in the hospitals from September 23. A meeting of the office bearers of the Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS), the association of government doctors was organised at the Gandhi hospital here on Sunday in which the decision to boycott the OPDs was taken. The general secretary of the association, Dr Manoj Verma said that two demands of the doctors are not addressed by the government. “ The association wants that the decision of salary deduction of one day should be taken back and complete salary and allowances should be paid to the medical students doing PG,’’ he said.
He added that prayer meetings would be held in all the hospitals on Sunday in which homage would be paid to the doctors who have lost their lives in the war against the Covid-19.
Verma said that from September 23 to 30 the doctors would boycott the OPDs. The association would decide on its future strategy on September 30.
