Medicos to expose Govt claims on healthcare

MEDICAL STUDENTS of the State have agreed to withdraw their call for a strike to protest the mandatory six-month internship in rural areas and have instead decided to expose the hollowness of the government?s claims that it had spent Rs 100 crore to improve the condition of government hospitals in these areas.

MEDICAL STUDENTS of the State have agreed to withdraw their call for a strike to protest the mandatory six-month internship in rural areas and have instead decided to expose the hollowness of the government’s claims that it had spent Rs 100 crore to improve the condition of government hospitals in these areas.

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According to Madhya Pradesh Junior Doctors Association (JDA) general secretary Dr Anand Rai, students passing out from medical colleges did not have any casual leave and had to be present 365 days. Thus their refusal to comply with government diktats could cost them dear.

Government has failed in its responsibility to provide basic facilities in rural health centres and due to this most interns shy away from serving at such places. The interns have now decided to go to the grassroots level medical/health centres and try to give as much humanitarian help as possible, while taking up the role of secret agents even filming discrepancies and shortages there despite tall claims from the government removing these very pitfalls.

Only interns from the medical college in Gwalior have continued their protest in this mater and if their voice was not heard chances of other medical student wings joining the protest turning it into the planned strike could not be ruled out.

This norm was largely being ignored and the government battling a yawning shortfall of trained medical staff/ doctors had found that these interns could be used to bridge the divide between health services in urban and rural areas.