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With the junior doctors in Andhra Pradesh intensifying their strike further and their boycott of emergency duty leading to the death of 24 patients in Government hospitals across the State, the Government has decided to further toughen its stand.
A Cabinet sub-committee, after discussing the situation with the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday declared that the Government will make alternate arrangements to ensure emergency services in all the hospitals and there will not be any further talks with the striking junior doctors.
The Medical Education Minister Kondru Murli told the reporters after the meeting that the Government had accepted 11 demands of the Junior Doctors’ Association and other problems can also be solved through the talks. “But the junior doctors have adopted an unreasonable stand and endangered the lives of the poor people by boycotting emergency duties”.
Talking on the demand of junior doctors to hike their stipend, another Minister, Shailajanath, said that the stipend was much higher in Andhra Pradesh than any other State. But the APJUDA said that it wants the stipend in the State to be at par with the amount paid in AIIIMS, New Delhi and JIPMER, Pondicherry.
The other demands of APJUDA include improvement of infrastructure and working conditions in the Government hospitals, supplying better equipment and life saving systems, including ventilators. The junior doctors alleged that while the Government schemes like Aarogyasri were being used to benefit the private hospitals, the Government hospitals were completely neglected in terms of infrastructure and other facilities.
Meanwhile, more deaths were reported from various Government hospitals in the State. The number of patients who died in the last 48-hours in Visakhapatanam hospital rose to eight, while 15 people died in the Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad.
However, the Government denied that these deaths was a result of the boycott of emergency duties by the doctors and said that such deaths were normal on any day.
A Cabinet sub-committee, after discussing the situation with the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday declared that the Government will make alternate arrangements to ensure emergency services in all the hospitals and there will not be any further talks with the striking junior doctors.
The Medical Education Minister Kondru Murli told the reporters after the meeting that the Government had accepted 11 demands of the Junior Doctors’ Association and other problems can also be solved through the talks. “But the junior doctors have adopted an unreasonable stand and endangered the lives of the poor people by boycotting emergency duties”.
Talking on the demand of junior doctors to hike their stipend, another Minister, Shailajanath, said that the stipend was much higher in Andhra Pradesh than any other State. But the APJUDA said that it wants the stipend in the State to be at par with the amount paid in AIIIMS, New Delhi and JIPMER, Pondicherry.
The other demands of APJUDA include improvement of infrastructure and working conditions in the Government hospitals, supplying better equipment and life saving systems, including ventilators. The junior doctors alleged that while the Government schemes like Aarogyasri were being used to benefit the private hospitals, the Government hospitals were completely neglected in terms of infrastructure and other facilities.
Meanwhile, more deaths were reported from various Government hospitals in the State. The number of patients who died in the last 48-hours in Visakhapatanam hospital rose to eight, while 15 people died in the Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad.
However, the Government denied that these deaths was a result of the boycott of emergency duties by the doctors and said that such deaths were normal on any day.
