Health dept refuses to budge, govt docs to sit on 3-hour dharna today

Chandigarh: As the Haryana health and family welfare department has refused to budge, the govt medicos on Sunday said they would go ahead with their agitation and sit on a three-hour dharna outside the office of the director general of health services (DGHS) at Panchkula on Monday.
Dr Rajesh Khyalia, state president, Haryana Civil Medical Services Officers’ Association, said if the govt failed to address their concerns, they would strike work in OPDs of govt hospitals and health centres across the state on July 15.
If the govt still chooses to ignore our demands, we will start an indefinite strike, impacting the IPD and OPD services. Except for emergencies, none of the clinical departments will work, said Dr Khyalia warned.
The medicos are demanding withdrawal of recruitment orders of the SMOs, reducing the bond money for the PG students in service and ACP on the lines of Union govt. We are forced to resort to such measures, said Dr Khyalia. “We really don’t want to go on strike, but the govt is forcing us to do so. They have gone back on the commitments made to the doctors,” he added.