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DAK lodges strong protest against Govt. | KNO

"Protest only hope to get our demands fulfilled"

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Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) under its president Dr Suhail Naik today lodged a strong protest at Directorate of Health Services Kashmir Office, Srinagar against Govt. for its callous approach in resolving the grave issues of medical fraternity.

It has been since decades that Govt. is playing with the sentiments of medical fraternity by not addressing the legitimate demands. Either the Govt. is hell bent not to solve the issues or the functionary is so inefficient that only after coming on to roads the demands shall be fulfilled. DAK has always been against protests as patient care is our worship & of utmost duty but seeing the dead end of the hopeless tunnel we are left with no option but to agitate so to highlight our demands for redressal.

“Today we are protesting to highlight our list of demands along with highlighting grave pay anomaly & availing gazetted holidays as it should be. Neither the doctors have been kept in Pay Band 3rd as per the past Commission recommendations nor as being witnessed in other parts of the country nor we being given any extra emoluments for the extra challenging duties we do.

From the history of pay bands it has observed that in J & K, the doctors enjoyed the higher pay bands as is evident from the previous records but with the passage of time it was relegated to lower pay bands for unknown reason as a result of this relegation the doctors of this noble profession feel humiliated and even has lead to the brain drain .This is against the ethics of being an employee and defies all labour laws”,Dr Naik said.

“Doctors will from now onwards avail gazetted holidays barring the medical emergencies & casualty sections of every hospital. There is no rule where it is written that a Doctor has to give extra duty without being given any perks that too when there pay band has already been demoted” ,Dr Naik further said. “Hon'ble Finance Minister Mr Altaf Bukhari while declaring 7th Pay Commission has recommended that, a Govt. employee should work not more than 40 hours a week. Duty hours of medical officers/dental surgeons range from 50 to 60hours a week while that of consultants range from   65 to 75 hours per week.

Pertinently the newly elected DAK has already met Hon'ble Health Minister Shri Bali Bhagat,Hon'ble Ex Finance Minister Mr Haseeb Drabu along with all other officers at Secretariat & Directorate level but unfortunately there seems no hope of seeing our issues being heard or resolved”,Dr Naik added”.

“The Doctors have been knocking the administrator corridors since time immemorial but it seems Govt. only acknowledges the problems when the matters get highlighted via protests. It is unfortunate that DAK had to resort for protest as all options have resulted in a dead end for us”, Dr Naik further added. General Secretary DAK , Dr Owais H Dar said that “we have submitted  last year a list of all genuine Financial & Non-Financial Implication Demands (Annexure - A)  to various stakeholders of the Govt. but it's quite deplorable that there is a complete halt on the redressal of our demands for the reasons better known to the authorities”.

DAK requests Hon’ble Chief Minister, Ms Mehbooba Mufti to intervene and frame high level committee so as to look into our genuine demands. DAK further warns the Govt. that if the authorities don't come with a stipulated time bound action plan in resolving the issues then we are left with no option but to launch a state wide agitation. We are giving 6 weeks’ time to the Govt. to full fill our demands or we will proceed for statewide strike and the Patient care thus effected will have all the onus on Govt. exclusively. It is pertinent to mention that DAK enjoys support of JKDCC which is an amalgam of all doctors association of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh

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