All the doctors from Koraput district have submited their resignation letters to the state government through the office of Orissa Medical Services Association (OMSA) on Monday last , Bharadwaj Mishra , Secretary , OMSA , Koraput branch said while talking to the media at Koraput.
While taking care of the health of the deprived masses of the district with all sincerity , the depleted strength of doctors in the district they were toiling manfully carrying a heavy burden of duty , to manage the health delivery system , which included treatment , preventive , IEC activities , more than 20 national health programmes , conducting post- mortem , attending to medico-legal cases and VIP/protocol duty besides emergency duties, he added.
Moreover for the lower pay scales compared to other states , doctors were not interested to work in the state and more particularly in the remote pockets of the district. , he added While the health services were facing great challenges in providing good health care to the people for various reasons , the situation in the district would be more worse after a month’s time for there would be no doctors serving in the district in the later part of next month if the state government did not respond to their demands, he feared
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