Telangana doctors to appeal to PMO against G.O. 229, form Joint Action Committee

Doctors crossed Telangana person announced that wide representations volition beryllium sent to the Prime Minister’s Office, the Telangana Chief Minister’s Office, the Union Health Ministry and the Telangana Health Ministry arsenic portion of an intensified protestation against Government Order (G.O) No. 229, which they allege undermines the autonomy of the Telangana Medical Council (TGMC). The determination was taken astatine a circular array gathering of assorted doctors’ associations held astatine the IMA Hall successful Koti connected Saturday, January 24. 

The G.O. provides for the assignment of 4 ex-officio members to the Telangana Medical Council, a determination the associations described arsenic a dilution of its antiauthoritarian and autonomous character. “In summation to submitting wide representation, arsenic a antiauthoritarian protest, doctors volition proceed achromatic badge demonstrations crossed the State,” they said.

The associations besides resolved to signifier a unified level titled the Telangana Allopathic Doctors Associations – Joint Action Committee (TADA-JAC) to coordinate a phased statewide agitation. The recently formed assemblage volition spearhead further enactment if the authorities does not respond to their demands.

Doctors astatine the gathering cautioned that, successful the lawsuit of continued inaction, aesculapian services could beryllium boycotted successful a phase-wise mode successful some authorities and backstage institutions. While reaffirming their committedness to diligent care, members of the aesculapian fraternity maintained that the independency of the Telangana Medical Council is non-negotiable. They urged the authorities to initiate dialog and retreat G.O. Ms. No. 229 successful what they described arsenic the larger nationalist interest.

Representatives from Indian Medical Assocaition (IMA) Telangana State, Healthcare Refroms Doctors Assocaition (HRDA), Telangana Junior Doctors Assocaition (T-JUDA), Telangana Senior Residents Doctors Association (T-SRDA) and assorted different associations were contiguous astatine the meeting.