Haryana government has decided to issue show cause notices to those doctors who participated in the symbolic strike for two…
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Haryana government has decided to issue show cause notices to those doctors who participated in the symbolic strike for two hours on Monday despite the imposition of the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) in the state, prohibiting any strike by the doctors for next six months.
Haryana Health minister Anil Vij said that as the ESMA has been imposed in the state banning any such strike, no doctor is allowed to go on strike, if anyone is found participating in strike, action would be taken as per the rules. Vij said that a symbolic strike was witnessed in few parts of the state and few doctors have been reported to participate in the strike as well. However, the exact numbers of such doctors are yet to be verified.
All the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) have been directed to identify such doctors who have protested and accordingly the notices would be issued to them and if their responses are not found satisfactory, police action would be taken against them as per the provisions of the ESMA, he added.
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The minister further stated that no doctor is allowed to play with the health of the people and nobody would be allowed to go on strike when the people are suffering from the diseases like dengue.
Demanding the state to issue a notification enable the doctors in the rural area to avail themselves of its benefit under the quota in admission to PG courses last year, doctors in Haryana have announced a two-hour symbolic strike for September 11 while a complete shutdown of health services, including emergency services, from September 14.
Following which, the state government has invoked the ESMA Act, 1974, prohibiting for the next six-months doctors affiliated to the Haryana Civil Medical Services Association to go on a strike.
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