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Call off stir, says DYFI

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State committee of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has urged government doctors to call off their work-to-rule stir to press for salary revision.

In a statement here on Friday, DYFI State president M. B. Rajesh and secretary T.V. Rajesh said the stir would have far reaching negative consequences in the health sector.

They pointed out that the doctors were not performing any work other than outpatient and inpatient care.

They pointed out that it was the present Left Democratic Front (LDF) government that had taken steps to implement the 1993 Prathapan Committee recommendation relating to granting of specialty and administrative options for the government doctors.

The Government had constituted a committee for the purpose with representatives of the doctors also as its members.

The recommendations of the committee were now being studied by the Finance Department.

The doctors were also partly responsible for the present situation because they had delayed giving their options for specialty or administrative services.

It was ironic that the doctors have launched the agitation after having waited for 15 years for implementation of the recommendation relating to service option.

The doctors must immediately call off the agitation, which was causing serious hardship to the people, and not allow themselves to become pawns in the hands of those wishing to reap political capital out of the situation, the DYFI leaders said.

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