Medicos oppose compulsory rural service, to intensify agitation
Staff Reporter
— Photo: R. Ashok.
DEAD AGAINST: Students of K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College wearing black badges as a mark of protest in Tiruchi on Monday.
TIRUCHI: Condemning the Centre’s move to make the rural medical service mandatory for fresh doctors, the students of K. A. P. Viswanatham Government Medical College here attended their classes on Monday wearing black badges as a mark of protest.
They also condemned the proposed increase in the duration of the undergraduate course to six and half years from the present five and a half years.
Distributing pamphlets on their charter of demands, they termed the proposals as “hire and fire policy.”
The office-bearers of the Tamil Nadu Medical Students’ Association (TNMSA), Tiruchi Branch, said the new policy of compulsory rural service stipulating two years for undergraduates, and three years for postgraduates on a temporary basis, would spurn job opportunities for fresh graduates.
The appointment of doctors should be made on permanent basis with a three-fold increase in their salary.
Doctors working in rural and hilly regions should be given additional pay and preference in promotional policy.
The TNMSA has also planned to intensify their stir shortly.
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