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Doctors to continue non-cooperation stir

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Thiruvananthapuram: Government doctors have decided to continue their non-cooperation strike until the government implements in full, the report of the committee set up under the Health Secretary to implement the administrative and specialty cadre for doctors in Health Service.

The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the State committee of the Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association (KGMOA) held in Kollam on Sunday to discuss the current stalemate with the government. The KGMOA will not participate in the meeting that has reportedly been called by Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy and the Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac on Monday as they have not yet received any formal intimation, president of the KGMOA Sunny P. Orathel told The Hindu.

“We do not know of any meeting that has been fixed by the Ministers with the KGMOA, except what the television channels have been relaying.

Even if we receive a formal intimation now, we will not participate in the meeting as we require sufficient notice to inform all our State committee members,” Dr. Orathel said.

KGMOA firm

The KGMOA will not settle for anything less than the full implementation of the committee report as the issues raised by the doctors have been long pending.

The State committee dismissed the Government’s threats of ‘appropriate action’ against striking doctors. It pointed out that all strikes by civil servants were ‘unlawful’ and that the doctors were forced into the strike by the Government.

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