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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
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They have planned a protest on Feb.28 to remind the govt. of their demands
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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.
‘Implement DACP to ensure pay and promotion opportunities’
The Federation of Government Doctors Association (FOGDA) has urged the State government for proper implementation of Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP) to ensure pay and promotion opportunities for government doctors.
A review of Government Order 354 that guarantees remuneration hikes and promotions has been pending since 2017. The doctors were demanding pay band-4 at 12 years of service as per a prospective clause of GO 354 for a number of years now, A. Ramalingam, convenor of FOGDA, told reporters on Wednesday.
“Instead, the Health Department is offering us allowances according to specialisations. Our demand for review of GO 354 is not about hike in pay but long-pending promotions. We want proper implementation of DACP that is exclusive for government doctors. In Tamil Nadu, the government implemented DACP in 2009, fixing the promotion and pay hike at 15, 17 and 20 years of service instead of four, nine a