Doctors' demo over 1,500 vacant posts

A convoy of doctors of Osmania General Hospital on Thursday urged the Government to fill up 1,500 vacant post of doctors across the state.

The agitated doctors demonstrated outside the Osmania General Hospital shouting slogans against the government’s indifference towards their problems. The sloganeering doctors demanded immediate steps to fill up vacant posts of doctors, para-medics and nurses in government hospitals.

The demonstrators also called for bringing ESI doctors under the purview of the Andhra Pradesh Vydya Vidhana Parishat.

Andhra Pradesh Government Doctors' Association general secretary  Ramesh Reddy set a week's deadline for the government to resolve the doctors' problems. He said the Association would intensify the stir if the Government did not implement the Task Force report which sought a parity in wages between doctors working under the Vydya Vidhana Parishat and those under the Centre.

A doctor working under the Directorate of Medical Education got a salary of Rs 60,000, but a doctor of his cadre and calibre under the Parishad got only Rs 18,000, he said.