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Medicos set to expose `anti-poor' policies

By Our Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA, JAN. 13. The indefinite strike by the junior doctors is expected to take a new turn after January 16 with the agitating medicos threatening to target the vote bank of the Telugu Desam Party by reaching to villages to expose the `anti-poor' policies of the party and the Government.

Though the junior doctors already formed groups and moved to the villages today, the campaign would get momentum after the festival holidays, N. Uday Kumar, city president of the Andhra Pradesh Junior Doctors Association (APJUDA), said.

"The TDP vote bank will be our target. We will break it. We will camp in villages and explain the reasons for our strike as it is the poor who are being put to hardship in the name of user charges,'' he said. "Our anger is not against any particular individual but against the Government which has failed to listen to our demands." He said medical college students would be ready to forego examinations for the sake of the strike. He alleged that the examination schedule, announced by the Government, was an attempt to hit students and was against the guidelines of the Medical Council of India which said that the dates should be announced well in advance.

The students and medicos were divided into 10 batches and they were camping in villages. They would cover Eluru, Machilipatnam and other towns in Krishna district, Dr. Uday Kumar said.

Earlier, two striking students - Parasuram (MBBS final year) and Vikku Naik (BDS final) - were shifted to the Government hospital for medical check-up as they were staging a hunger strike.

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