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Pondicherry
By Our Staff Reporter
PONDICHERRY, MARCH 6. Employees and workers of the Centrally-administered Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) here will go on a daylong strike from 7 a.m. tomorrow to protest against the decision of the Union Health Ministry to convert the institute into an autonomous body. Addressing a press conference here today the JIPMER Employees Anti-Conversion Action Committee president, Arokiam Kalaimathy, and its general secretary, M. Asokan, said the committee had already held protests and demonstrations to resist the Centre's move. Patients, students, employees and the hospital and medical college administration (which are now under the direct control of Directorate-General of Health Services) would face hardship, as autonomous status was just a prelude to privatisation. Employees and workers who would abstain from work belong to Groups B, C and D categories in the hospital. Office-bearers of the committee said the Ministry's Joint Director had held a meeting with representatives of the employees, doctors, teachers and students in JIPMER on Saturday. But it did not lead to any breakthrough. Poor patients now getting treatment free of cost in the JIPMER hospital would be forced to pay as autonomous institutions like the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi had confirmed that autonomy would be injurious to all sections. The employee representatives felt unhappy over the `silence' maintained by the Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, in whose constituency the institute is situated. It is learnt that the emergency and casualty sections in hospital would function with duty doctors.
Plea to employees
The former MP, V. P. M. Samy, has called upon the employees to refrain from protests. In a release here yesterday, once JIPMER became an autonomous body, it would have the power to take all decisions locally.
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