With the ongoing strike by medicos worsening by days, junior doctors here on Saturday alleged that the State government continued to overlook their security concerns.
VSS Junior Doctors Association on Monday insisted that Dandia must be booked under the National Security Act (NSA) as a precondition to end their agitation that entered its 15th day.
The development came even as the government has raised bamboo barricades and has decided to reopen the VSS Medical College amid tight security on Tuesday.
"The government has been misleading us that Dandia can't be booked under NSA. He must be booked because he is preventing an entire government hospital from functioning," said Dr Premaraj Debata, president of VSS Junior Doctors' Association.
Despite the announcement made by the Odisha government on Sunday to open the VSS Medical College and Hospital in Burla that was declared sine die on September 20, the striking medicos sought a written assurance on provision of tight security measures in all three premiere medical colleges and hospital in the state.
However, the medicos urged the state government to give a written assurance on its decision, stating that the agitation would be resumed in case the government did not act accordingly.
However, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) would take the decision on the future course of action, they said.
The weeklong agitation in the three medical colleges in Cuttack, Berhampur and Burla has paralyzed health services much to the pitiable plight of the patients.
As the two-day meeting between the state government and the agitating students starting from Friday failed without any tangible result with both sides remaining adamant over their stands, health and family welfare minister Prasanna Acharya on Sunday announced a series of measures including lifting of the sine-die to open the Burla Medical College on September 20 in a bid to bring back normalcy in all three campuses.
The medicos are on agitation demanding adequate security at the VSS Medical College and Hospital, securing the campus with a boundary, removal of encroachments and strong action against the alleged perpetrators who assaulted the Jr doctors at Burla in the second week of September by reopening the case, withdrawal of all cases against the medical students and regularization of their attendance.
The Burla Medial College was closed sine-die following clash between the Jr doctors and locals of Burla, particularly supporters of one Sisir Kumar Dandia, president of the local unit of BJD who is the principal accused in the assault case and along with his local goons are creating a situation of panic and horrific situation for the doctors and the patients. This is a alarming situation. Junior doctors demanded that anti-social elements involved in assault case should be booked under stringent National Security Act and campus security should be tightened. And supporting the cause of their friends, the medicos at the SCB Medial College and Hospital, Cuttack and MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur have also resorted to cease-work for the last one week almost paralyzing health services in the three premier health service institutions.
Agitating junior doctors of three Medical Colleges of Orissa today intensified their stir by starting hunger strike.
They started hunger strike as the govt. is not listening to their demands.
"There is no question of ending the agitation as our demands are yet to be met. The person who attacked the medios at Burla has not been arrested and booked under NSA," said Junior Doctor Association (JDA) secretary Nilamadhav Prusti.
Their strike today reached the sixth day. Following strike by House Surgeons, junior doctors and PG students of the three medical colleges at Cuttack, Burla and Berhampur, patient-care has been derailed putting thousands of patients and their attendants to misery.
As per sources, the state Health Minister is not hearing and paying no heed to their demands as the person who attacked the medical students belongs to BJD and once upon a time he was the MP nominee for the minister.
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