Ludhiana: Doctors in various district government hospitals experienced a three-day strike on Monday to protest the government to reduce their facilities to the sixth payment commission.
On the first day of the strike, the doctor boycotted OPD and all other activities, except for the case of an emergency and Covid task.
They also burned a copy of the sixth payment commission report while increasing the slogan against the Punjab government.
In a statement, members of the Punjab Punjab Punjend (JGDCC) Coordination Committee together with Dr.
Gagandeep Singh, President, Punjab Civil Service Services (PCMSA), Dr.
Sarabjit Singh Randhawa, President, Animal Officer Association, Dr.
Gagandeep Singh Shergill, Senior Deputy.
President, PCMSA, Dr.
Pawanpreet Kaur, President, Dental Association, Dr.
Sanjeev Pathak, Ayurvedic Association, Dr.
Balwinder Singh, Homeopathy Association, and Deepidating Singh, the association of rural medical officers, criticized a loose attitude from the doctors.
They said that if the government did not discuss the issue of non-practicing benefits (NPA), medical doctors and Punjab veterinarians would be forced to carry out unlimited attacks.
The Coordinator Committee also appealed to CM to resolve the problem.
JGDCC members said Monday Strike was observed after a combined committee’s decision that all doctors in the state would boycott the Government OPD from July 15 to 17 and parallel was run by JGDCC on the hospital yard so that requires not seized health / veterinary services.
It was also announced that during the boycott of health services, all state doctors will donate blood and wise blood donor camps will be held, on July 15 in Malwa, on July 16 at Majha and on July 17 in the Doaba region.
The patient is a lot of harriied.
“I came to the hospital for abdominal pain.
Now, I returned without a medical consultation because I didn’t know about the strike,” Ashok Kumar said from the old city.
Previous women who went to the government hospital to check-up also faced problems because of strikes.