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Doctors to tender resignations

KORAPUT: All the doctors from Koraput district will be submitting their resignation letters to the State Government through the office of Orissa Medical Services Association (OMSA) on Monday, Bharadwaj Mishra, Secretary, OMSA, Koraput branch said while talking to the media at Koraput today.

While taking care of the health of the deprived masses of the district with all sincerity, the depleted strength of doctors in the district they were toiling manfully carrying a heavy burden of duty, to manage the health delivery system, which included treatment, preventive, IEC activities, more than 20 national health programmes, conducting post- mortem, attending to medico-legal cases and VIP/protocol duty besides emergency duties, he added.

Moreover for the lower pay scales compared to other states, doctors were not interested to work in the State and more particularly in the remote pockets of the district, he added.

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