Doctors defer strike after government promises pay hike
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:19.09.2018
Government doctors in Tamil Nadu have deferred their strike after the state health department promised them announcements on hike in pay structure within four weeks.
Health minister C Vijaya Baskar, health secretary J Radhakrishan and other senior officials of the health department held an eight-hour talk with the government doctors, who had threatened to boycott work barring emergency services at all government hospitals on September
21. The health department said it will constitute a working committee of three directors – from medical services, public health and medical education –chaired by a government official along with representatives from the doctors’ association to submit a report in four weeks with recommendations to resolve the grievances. “We have told them that we will offer finality to the issue in a time bound manner. Until then doctors have told us they will put all protest on hold,” said a senior health official. Meanwhile, doctors who were a part of the meeting said that they were promised that better pay.
The health department held an eight-hour talk with the government doctors, who had threatened to boycott work barring emergency services at all government hospitals on September 21
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:19.09.2018
Government doctors in Tamil Nadu have deferred their strike after the state health department promised them announcements on hike in pay structure within four weeks.
Health minister C Vijaya Baskar, health secretary J Radhakrishan and other senior officials of the health department held an eight-hour talk with the government doctors, who had threatened to boycott work barring emergency services at all government hospitals on September
21. The health department said it will constitute a working committee of three directors – from medical services, public health and medical education –chaired by a government official along with representatives from the doctors’ association to submit a report in four weeks with recommendations to resolve the grievances. “We have told them that we will offer finality to the issue in a time bound manner. Until then doctors have told us they will put all protest on hold,” said a senior health official. Meanwhile, doctors who were a part of the meeting said that they were promised that better pay.
The health department held an eight-hour talk with the government doctors, who had threatened to boycott work barring emergency services at all government hospitals on September 21
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