2-day Suspension Of OPD Services Announced By Manipur Doctors Beginning On December 27

IMPHAL: The All Manipur Health Services Doctors Association (AMHSDA) has demanded that OPD services be shut down for two days beginning on December 27 and thereafter permanently due to a number of requests, including scale promotion and raising the retirement age to 65.

A joint conference of AMHSDA executives, CMOs, and their physicians and nurses in Bishnupur and Thoubal resulted in the decision to close health services, including OPDs.

They are merely requesting their basic and fundamental rights, according to a statement from the AMHSDA, for time-bound/scale promotions, an increase in the retirement age to 65, the implementation of the 7th CPC's NPA fixation on January 1, 2016, and an update to the antiquated Manipur Health Services Rules 1982.

It claimed that it had whittled down its charter of demands to only four in response to a request from the government. But according to the group, the government has allegedly been ignoring their pleas for close to two years.

According to the reports, MCS and MPS officers receive promotions every four years, whereas MHS doctors do not receive any promotions despite working for three decades.

This month, a large number of doctors took a casual leave of absence. Health care suffered as a result in numerous regions across the state. 70% of the approximately 1,300 doctors in total had taken mass casual leave, according to the All Manipur Health Services Physicians Association (AMHSDA), when question.

The doctors have requested a promotion with a deadline, raising the retirement age to 50 years, and starting a no-practicing allowance on January 1.

According to sources, a person who does not work for the government is referred to be "independent." "The government is buying time and will completely disregard the doctor's instructions. In earlier talks, the government had already verbally committed to meeting at least four of the eight demands."

Before this, the angry doctors had staged sit-in protests and engaged in a relay hunger strike to press the government to comply with their demands.

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