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The Legal Coordination Committee for Government Doctors (LCC) has urged the Tamil Nadu authorities to code a bid of long-pending demands concerning wage revision, unit shortages, regularisation of contractual employees and payment measures for doctors serving successful the nationalist healthcare system.
In a practice addressed to the Health Minister, the committee congratulated the recently assumed authorities and urged it to prioritise the demands of authorities doctors, including implementation of wage set 4 aft 12 years of work arsenic per Government Order 354. The committee said Tamil Nadu authorities doctors, including specialists and super-specialists, were receiving salaries little than their counterparts successful respective different States contempt the State’s achievements successful reducing maternal and babe mortality rates.”
The committee besides requested the authorities to supply a authorities occupation to the woman of Dr. Vivekanandan, a authorities doc who died portion serving during the COVID-19 pandemic. It said repeated appeals seeking alleviation for the household had remained unresolved for much than 5 years.
Among different demands, the LCC called for the regularisation of 400 dental surgeons who person been moving connected declaration successful Primary Health Centres for implicit 15 years. It stated that the doctors continued to enactment without permanency, promotions, oregon capable pay.
The practice further sought doubling of doc and caregiver posts successful authorities hospitals and assignment of dental surgeons successful each Primary Health Centres. It besides demanded withdrawal of a Rule 17(b) complaint memo issued against S. Perumal Pillai, president, Legal Coordination Committee for Government Doctors, for starring a protestation highlighting doctors’ demands.
