Hoshiarpur, Jul 12: Doctors on Monday staged dharna after closing OPD services at Civil Hospital in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur, to protest against the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations to decrease and de-link the Non-Practicing Allowance (NPA) from the basic pay.
The dharna was staged on the call of the Joint Government Doctors Coordination Committee, led by General Secretary of District PCMS Association Dr. Sanam Sandhu and President, Dental PCMS Dr. Navneet Kaur.
Addressing the occasion, the spokesperson for the government doctors Dr. Neha Paul lamented that the government doctors were on the path of struggle for the last several days but the state government did not pay heed to their demands.
Keeping in view the public interest, emergency, novel Covid-19, postmortem and medico-legal services have been functioning normally so that persons coming to government hospitals may not suffer.
If the state government fails to resolve the issue, the government doctors would go on indefinite strike from July 19, they warned.
On the occasion, Dr. Jaswinder Singh and Dr. Swati, both SMOs of the Civil Hospital, Dr. Navjot, Dr. Sham Sunder Sharma, Dr. Lakshmi, Dr. Harnoor Kaur, Dr. Manpreet Kaur, Dr. Sukhdeep Kaur, Dr. Rajwant Kaur, Dr. Gagandeep, Dr. Baldeep Singh, Dr. Upkar Singh Sooch, Dr. Santokh Singh and Dr. Kamlesh Kaur, etc were present.
Nursing staff and paramedical staff also participated in the dharna. (UNI)