Government
Doctors in Jharkhand resorted to 3 days work freeze action i.e. from28-30,
September, 2016 in pursuance of their long pending 20 point demands, at the
call of JHASA supported by IMA. On the last day private practicenors also
joined this partial-strike action. We congratulate agitating doctors for
exhibiting exemplary unity against indifferent and irresponsible attitude of
state govt. towards healthcare.
Raghuvar Das ministry neither settled agreed points
nor opened dialogue with aggrieved doctors nor arranged some relief work for
ailing people of the state .Failure & Insensivity of BJP led Govt. towards
Healthcare system has only increased sufferings of people. However, some
incidents of not attending emergency patients, shutting down of hospitals in a
few places and 2 reported casualties due lack of treatment are unpardonable
mistakes of doctors.
16 out of 20 demands of agitating doctors are related to
their service conditions, employment, workamenities and job conditions, are as
genuine as those of common employees who are deprived and victim of neo-liberal
policies pursued by the government in state & centre. State Govt.must redress these grievances.
The much media hyped issue of Medical Protection Act,
which in fact is “Medicare Personnel& Institutions (damage of property)
Act, applicable in 18 states, is meant for entire Health workers. But in
pattern of S.E.Z.industry, the corporate & other private health investors
are much eager for this Act to cover up their heinous misdeedsand create legal terror
in name ofprotection. Overwhelming
health workers do not require such special legislation. With present
pro-corporate government there are every possibility of misuse of such Act
against common people.
Clinical Establishment Act (CEA) -2010 is effective in
Jharkhand from 2012.“CEA-2012” has provisions to regulate “Standard Treatments”
& “Standard Costs” applicable to all private & government hospitals.
Nothing has been done by Raghuvar Das ministry to enforce this pro-people
“CEA-2012”. Had this “CEA-2012” been implemented seriously for the benefit of
people none of the private health captains would have mustered the moral
courage to raise the bogey of Medical Protection Act. Opposition to pro-people “CEA-2012” by IMA is
unfortunate.
Government must correct doctor deficit. Till such time
some pragmatic approach towards private practice may be evolved, without
compromising the standards of treatment/services in government hospitals. Any privilege
to doctors in respect to employee’s disciplines will be discriminatory. This is
applicableto bio-metric attendance also.
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