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Unkept promises are poll issues for govt doctors

Updated: March 15, 2021 03:48 IST The main among them are pay hike and promotions and special pay for those who contracted COVID-19 Share Article AAA The main among them are pay hike and promotions and special pay for those who contracted COVID-19 Unkept promises have left hundreds of government doctors a disappointed lot. After being at the centre of COVID-19 care for a year, several government doctors feel the government’s unfulfilled assurances, including the long-pending pay hike and promotions, will be the main issues for them at the Assembly election. In the last few years, government doctors staged various forms of protests including a seven-day strike by members of the Federation of Government Doctors Association (FOGDA) in October 2019 and held several rounds of talks with the Health Department to resolve the long-pending issues. While these demands remained unmet, the Chief Minister, at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, assured healthcare providers/wo

Covid killed young doc who died in quarantine, govt told | Chennai News

Chennai: Three months after Dr N Logesh Kumar, a 24-year-old postgraduate student of Madras Medical College, died in a hotel room where he had quarantined himself after Covid-19 duty, the directorate of medical education has declared that forensic, histopathology and radiology reports indicate that he had died due to Covid-19. The directorate, which is in charge of administering all government medical colleges, sent a formal report to the government to record Covid as the cause of his death and process applications to get ex gratia for his family. Logesh Kumar was taken to Government Royapettah Hospital where he was declared ‘brought dead’. Police said they suspected suicide or food poisoning and his body was sent to the mortuary for postmortem. The postmortem was completed yet, until Friday, the cause of death was not disclosed. Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital dean Dr E Theranirajan had asked directors of pathology, radiology and forensic medicine to submit their op

Government doctors wear demand badges to work

Government doctors wear ‘demand badges’ to work Updated: Updated: They have planned a protest on Feb.28 to remind the govt. of their demands Share Article They have planned a protest on Feb.28 to remind the govt. of their demands Doctors affiliated to the Federation of Government Doctors Association (FOGDA) launched a protest on Wednesday by wearing ‘demand badges’ to work. They will continue wearing the badges till February 28 to draw the attention of the State government to their pending demands. P. Saminathan, general secretary of the Service Doctors and Postgraduates’ Association and a convener of FOGDA, said they had been raising four demands for nearly two years. One of the demands was pay band-4 at 12 years of service.

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