Madhya Pradesh Doctors on Indefinite Strike; Healthcare crisis looms

After failed talks with the state government, doctors started an indefinite strike yesterday over several demands including providing a uniform policy for recruitment, promotion, regularisation, pay revision, and revival of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).

The doctors in Madhya Pradesh are again sitting on strike with their demands to provide a uniform policy for recruitment, promotion, regularisation, pay revision, and revival of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). The demand also includes the appointment of working doctors in administrative posts instead of bureaucrats, and the implementation of Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP) 2008 in Madhya Pradesh which was enacted by the union government earlier.

On doctors' protest, Madhya Pradesh high court has said that the doctors on strike must immediately return to work and should not participate in protests without taking permission, as reported by ETV Bharat.

The court has declared the strike illegal and said that this is not the way to go on strike as the patients will suffer.

As part of the statewide strike, government doctors staged protests outside Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal. Also, 32 surgeries were postponed at Bhopal's Hamidia hospital, and serious patients lie unattended in corridors of JP hospital.

Dean of MGM Medical College, Dr Sanjay Dixit told Free Press Journal, "The doctors' association has announced to go on strike by May 3 and it may disturb the health and medical facilities in the hospitals associated with the medical college. We have cancelled the leaves of medical teachers and officers for the same."

Also, reports have emerged about some patients dying due to the unavailability of healthcare facilities in the state.

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