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Hundreds of doctors successful authorities hospitals and aesculapian facilities crossed Odisha boycotted outpatient (OPD) services for 2 hours from 9 to 11 a.m. connected Monday (January 5, 2026), demanding salaries based connected the Central wage structure.
Patient attraction was affected, and the concern could worsen if the authorities fails to code our charter of demands, the Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA) has warned.
“Governments successful astir 20 states person started paying their doctors’ salaries successful enactment with the Central wage structure. The Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP) strategy has besides been implemented successful respective states. However, successive governments successful Odisha, including the erstwhile Naveen Patnaik government, utilized delaying tactics and avoided granting doctors the wage operation they are entitled to,” OMSA president Kishore Chandra Mishra said.
Disheartened doctors are leaving
“Disheartened by the debased wage structure, authorities doctors are switching to the backstage sector, pushing the nationalist wellness strategy towards a crisis. We person held talks with the Government 5 to six times, but it has go evident that determination is nary superior intent to code our demands,” Dr. Mishra added.
Over 6,000 doctors astatine 32 hospitals successful territory headquarters, 300 assemblage wellness centres, and different superior wellness centres are taking portion successful the doctors’ strike.
The OMSA president said the association’s Central Executive Committee would conscionable connected January 15 to measure their protest. “If the Government remains adamant, doctors would beryllium forced to instrumentality stringent steps.”
The OMSA has placed a broad charter of demands earlier the State government, focusing connected wage parity, vocation progression, cadre restructuring, and workplace safety.
At the halfway of the demands is the implementation of the DACP strategy successful enactment with the Central authorities wage operation from the day of eligibility, without immoderate preconditions, on with the abolition of Level 15 for doctors, arsenic already followed for different Class-I officers successful Odisha.
Cadre restructuring
OMSA has besides sought proportionate cadre restructuring crossed each grades, incremental incentives for super-specialists, specialists, diploma holders, and administrators, post-mortem allowances, and parity successful performance-based incentives (PBI). The relation has further demanded the hold of DACP, specializer allowance, cadre restructuring, and PBI benefits to dental cadres.
Beyond wage and vocation issues, OMSA has raised concerns implicit manpower shortages, work conditions, and safety. The relation has called for the implementation of a three-year exit argumentation for doctors posted successful KBK (Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi) region, KBK+ and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) areas, regular yearly recruitment done the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC), and timely Departmental Promotion Committees (DPCs).
It has besides demanded the operation of a Capital Hospital-II exclusively for the Odisha Medical Health Services cadre to conscionable the healthcare needs of the increasing colonisation of Bhubaneswar.
Emphasising safety, OMSA has sought strict implementation and revision of the Odisha Medicare Act, 2008, including non-bailable provisions against offenders, round-the-clock equipped security, and constabulary outposts successful each wellness institutions.
Other demands see the regularisation of advertisement hoc doctors, designation of advertisement hoc and contractual work for DACP eligibility, and broad wellness security sum for each healthcare personnel.
