New Delhi: Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde on Thursday afternoon appealed to resident doctors to withdraw strike. Nearly 4,000 doctors have gone on an indefinite strike from Thursday in support of their various demands, a move that is likely to affect medical services in public hospitals in the city and elsewhere.
Tawde said, "Legitimate demands have been met. Demands like increasing basic pay, decreasing number of working hours to 8 hours will mean a huge burden in exchequer and are difficult to meet."
"We have been asking the government to take our security seriously from the last 5 years, but nothing has happened. A patient dies and doctors are assaulted," he said.
"We are also demanding that the government make us sign bonds to serve the department in which we have done our specialisation. For instance, If I have done my MD in psychiatry, I should be made to compulsorily serve in the same department. Working in some other department as a casualty medical officer equals to playing with a patient's life," Mundada said.
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