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Adding to the exhaustion due to COVID-19 duty is the risk of infection that they face every day
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CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU,07/05/2021: Doctor examine to covid patient on Ambulance at Kilpauk Government Medical College hospital on Friday, May 07, 2021.Photo: Velankanni Raj B/THE HINDU
Adding to the exhaustion due to COVID-19 duty is the risk of infection that they face every day
Many healthcare providers/workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the State. In a number of cases, family members of the doctors too have been infected.
In the last two days, a government doctor and two nurses lost their lives to COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu. With exhaustion setting in among health workers, the risk of getting infected is adding to their stress.
Doctors’ associations call for a lockdown
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‘Health infrastructure is overwhelmed’
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Tamil Nadu, Chennai, 03/05/2021 : As the number of hospitalisations due to the Coronavirus disease in Chennai city, Nurses assist a Oxygen support patient inside the COVID-19 ward at Tower-3, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) in Chennai on Monday. Photo : Jothi Ramalingam .B / The Hindu
‘Health infrastructure is overwhelmed’
With cases continuing to surge in Tamil Nadu, doctors’ associations are worried about the “overburdened” healthcare infrastructure and have called for an intense lockdown to cut down disease transmission and step up infrastructural requirements.
Government doctors’ associations have already submitted representations, recommending a lockdown.
Doctors seek refund of fee from Medical Council
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Nearly 90 of them had made double payment while applying for registration
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Nearly 90 of them had made double payment while applying for registration The Service Doctors and Postgraduates’ Association has written to the Tamil Nadu Medical Council seeking refund of registration fee paid to the Council last year.
In a letter to the Council, SDPGA president P. Saminathan said several doctors had made double payment for registration. The Council was yet to refund the money paid by such candidates.
“Nearly 90 doctors, who applied for registration in TNMC in the past one year, have paid double the fees due to the cumbersome online payment of fees and have applied for refund of the excess fees,” Dr. Saminathan wrote.
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.