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Doctors threaten stir from December 18

BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Medical Service Association (OMSA), the largest body of government doctors, here on Sunday renewed its threat that doctors would abstain from duties from December 18 if the State government failed to bring about changes in their service conditions as they demanded.

“We have already put State government on one-month notice period. The State government has been requested to make alternative arrangement for providing health services as government doctors would not like to continue with a discriminatory service conditions,” OMSA president Madhusudan Mishra said here. Owing to faulty policy being imposed on professionals, health sector was crumbling in the State, said Dr. Mishra.

He said, “hundreds of young medical graduates have migrated to other States and private sector in search of better opportunities.”

“We need Dynamically Assured Career Progression for State government doctors. The DACP promotion policy has already been implemented in Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttrakhand, Rajasthan, Kerala and Punjab,” said OMSA president.

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