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Junior doctors end stir, to move court

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, APRIL 25. Junior doctors called off the boycott of work at government hospitals on Sunday night and decided to move the high court seeking continuation of last year's fee structure for postgraduate medical and dental courses. The strike had hit medical services in government hospitals on Saturday. But the doctors turned up for emergency and casualty department work on Sunday.

Patients did not have much to complain at the hospitals affiliated to Bangalore Medical College, including Victoria Hospital, Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, and Vani Vilas Hospital. The junior doctors had earlier decided to boycott even emergency and casualty services from Monday if action was not initiated to revoke the increase in the fee.

Earlier, the doctors and other postgraduate medical and dental seat aspirants met the A.B. Murgod Fee Committee at the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell. However, the fee panel told them that the committee's work was only to fix the fees and could not address the candidates' demands. The junior doctors requested that the counselling for postgraduate seats, scheduled to commence on April 27, be postponed by a day so that they could get more time to seek a legal solution. The Medical Education Department, meanwhile, took serious note of the junior doctors' boycott of work at government hospitals and cautioned them that they would be suspended if they did not return to duty. The Murgod fee panel had tentatively fixed the fee at Rs. 2 lakh for all postgraduate medical and dental courses, for both management and government quota seats.

However, following protests by in-service doctors, the Government had agreed to retain last year's fee structure for them.

The respective government departments were to pay the remaining amount to the concerned medical and dental colleges.

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