Bhopal: The stir between junior medical doctors and the Madhya Pradesh authorities entered its sixth day on Saturday because the medics refused to finish the agitation regardless of the High Court terming the strike unlawful.
The matter has escalated because the state authorities on Saturday despatched eviction notices to the medical doctors who just lately resigned, to vacate their hostels. This order comes after 3,000 medics had resigned on Thursday put up the High Court order.
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“Our peaceful protest will continue. They have asked us to vacate the government hostel in Bhopal, and also pay bond fees (which runs into several lakh rupees”. When they’ll serve us eviction notices, why not launch a written order growing our stipend,” Madhya Pradesh Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) secretary Ankita Tripathi told news agency PTI.
She informed that JUDA functionaries attempted to resolve the issue by seeking an appointment with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
While the JUDA secretary says that they were not as of now planning on approaching the Supreme Court to challenge the MP HC order, others said that was being seen as an option.
MP Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang said that the state government had given a stipend hike of 17 percent, however, the doctors were adamant it should be 24 percent.
“The High Court has termed their strike unlawful and requested them to return to work inside 24 hours. We are prepared to carry talks to settle the difficulty. We have accepted most of their calls for,” he advised PTI.
Junior medical doctors in six medical schools throughout Madhya Pradesh have been protesting for a stipend hike in addition to free Covid-19 therapy for them and their household.
Matters escalated when the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the putting junior medical doctors within the state to renew their duties inside 24 hours. Following this, the protesting medicos remained defiant and practically 3,000 of them resigned from their posts and introduced they’ll problem the ruling.
