Assam Medical Service Association to launch stir from today across State

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: To demand fulfilment of various demands, the Assam Medical Service Association (AMSA) will launch a series of agitation programmes from Tuesday across the State.

AMSA general secretary Dr Kanak Chandra Talukdar told The Sentinel, "Medical service personnel across the State will boycott OPD (Out Patient Department) duties for three hours from 11 am on October 19. They will totally boycott OPD duties on October 22, October 26, October 27, October 28, November 1, November 2 and November 3. Even after this if our demands are not fulfilled, we will hold a general body meeting and in that meeting, we will decide our next course of action."

The demands of the AMSA include cadre revision. "Over the last three decades no cadre revision has taken place in Assam Health Service-A. Even after repeated assurance by the government for cadre revision and submission of the report of Subhas Das committee report for Cadre Revision of Health (A) Service 1, it is yet to be materialized," said Dr Talukdar.

Other demands are time-scale promotion for Health (A) doctors, two advance increments to Diploma Holder of Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences (SSUHS), pay for Health (A) doctors to be at par with the doctors of Central Government/Doctors of Health (B)/ other Northeast States, timely promotions for Health (A) doctors at all levels, increase in PG seats for Health (A) doctors, paying Health (A) doctors for evening OPD service, rent-free quarters for Health (A) doctors, security to all health service providers of Health (A) and immediate measures to fill up vacant posts of doctors.

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