A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the High Court against striking doctors in Telangana. With the Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) going on an indefinite strike and blocking even the emergency services, the High Court in Hyderabad has issued notices to JUDA in the state.
With talks failing between TS government and JUDA, the association has intensified strike and has even decided to stall the emergency services until the governments relent to their demands.
Taking a serious note of this, the united High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state in Hyderabad has issued notices to the striking junior doctors in Telangana and posted the case to 20th October this month for further hearing. Earlier a public interest litigation has been filed against the Junior Doctors Association for not joining rural medical service.
Responding to a PIL filed by one B Ravi Kumar Swamy against the agitating doctors, the high court bench constituting Chief Justice Kalyan Sengupta and Justice Sanjay Kumar have issued a notice to the Junior Doctors Association in Telangana State.
According to the PIL filed in the High Court, the doctors going on a strike is illegal and unlawful as it will create inconvenience to the poor patients in the government hospitals.
Earlier, the junior doctors and post graduate medicos in Telangana have gone on an indefinite strike since 27th September refusing the government order to join the rural service until their demands are met by the government.
“In fact it was expected that the talks between the state government and the members of JUDA would happen on Monday, but due to unrelenting attitude on both sides it has been postponed,” said a source in the health ministry.
According to the sources in the health ministry, it is said that the doctors are demanding the government to fill all the vacant medical posts in the PHCs in the state and scrap the condition of compulsory rural service. “Every time, the government is turning a blind eye towards the issue of filling the vacant medical posts in the hospitals, and instead they are using the junior doctors running the hospitals without having a full time regular doctor in the PHCs and government hospitals,” said a member of JUDA.