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4,000 resident doctors on strike over bond service issue in Gujarat

by TLAteam June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
written by TLAteam June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
4,000 resident doctors on strike over bond service issue in Gujarat

Nearly 4,000 resident doctors from five government-run medical colleges in Gujarat went on an indefinite strike from Wednesday to put pressure on the state government to consider their senior residency as mandatory bond service for 12 months.

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While hospital administrators have made alternative arrangements to deal with the strike’s impact, Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel stated that resident doctors are obligated to serve people in rural areas as part of their bond.

Out of the state’s six government medical colleges – Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar, resident doctors in Surat refrained from joining the strike and they gave one more day to the government to resolve the issue.

As of now, the resident doctors have ceased providing all routine OPD (Out Patient Department) services indefinitely. Though they are available for emergency and COVID-19 services, their associations have threatened to launch a full-fledged strike in the coming days if the issue remains unresolved.

According to rules regarding the service bond, students of government medical colleges have to serve in rural areas for at least one year after completing their post graduate (PG) medical course.

If any student wants to break the bond signed at the time of taking admission, he has to pay Rs 40 lakh. This rule is applicable to students of the six government medical colleges in the state.

Since some time, students of the 2019 batch, who have completed their course and are about to start their senior residency of 12 months in hospitals attached with their respective colleges, have been demanding that the government should this residency period as the bond period.

“Our demand is legitimate because students of this batch had served COVID-19 patients for 17 months, out of the total 36 months of the course. If the previous batches are exempted from bond service on the same ground, then why can’t the government consider the batch of 2019 for the same relief?” asked Dr Rahul Gameti, president of the Junior Doctors’ Association in Ahmedabad.

However, Health Minister Rushikesh Patel has warned of disciplinary action against the agitating doctors.

According to officials at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, which is affiliated to the government-run B J Medical College, there is no major impact of the strike as of now.

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