CHENNAI: Though the doctors, who have been protesting over the ‘mistreatment’ of higher officials said the government has accepted most of their demands in a meeting held on Tuesday, a final decision on withdrawing the protest will be taken after the meeting of Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association (TNGDA) State Emergency Committee to be held on Wednesday.
The meeting on Tuesday was headed by Health Minister Ma Subramanian and health secretary Supriya Sahu.
As part of their protest, the doctors affiliated to TNGDA, on Tuesday, boycotted elective procedures in obstetrics and gynaecology and family welfare. They also admitted patients who had complained of just one day of fever in Primary Health Centres (PHCs), taluk hospitals and non-taluk hospitals and district hospitals as a mark of protest against a senior officials’ “impractical” and “unnecessary” recommendations to do so.
The demands of the TNGDA included filling vacancies on a par with patients’s strength and avoiding monthly review meeting by district collectors after office hours.
Meanwhile,two tubectomy surgeries and elective surgery supposed to be done on Tuesday were postponed to Wednesday, Hosur Government Hospital Chief Medical Officer Gnanameenakshi told TNIE.
In Coimbatore, the doctors continued their protest by avoiding meetings with officials, and they said they did not submit any reports like what they did on Monday.
A senior doctor from the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai said the doctors did not update the patients statistics in the official WhatsApp group. “The elective procedures of obstetrics patients have been carried out but it was not carried out for the gynecology patients. The doctors had not taken part in any meeting as part of the protest,” he added.