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KIMS junior doctors go on strike

Staff Correspondent

Protest against withholding of stipends

IN SUPPORT OF DEMANDS: Members of the Junior Doctors' Association of the Karnataka Institut of Medical Sciences Hospital staging a demonstration in Hubli on Thursday.

HUBLI: Junior doctors of the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hubli, began an indefinite stir here on Thursday in protest against the withholding of their stipends (for the period of anti-reservation protests) and to press for other demands.

The junior doctors, led by the president of Junior Doctors Association Prashanth G. Nayak and other office-bearers, staged a demonstration in front of the office of the KIMS director.

The protestors said that the Supreme Court had directed the Union and State Governments not to withhold the stipends of junior doctors for the strike period. Despite that, the KIMS authorities were not ready to release the stipends of the junior doctors unless they received a Government Order, they said.

They said although the KIMS director was approached by the junior doctors on several occasions urging him for sorting out the stipend issue and also other issues, only assurances were given. Till date action had not been taken. Dr. Prashanth Nayak alleged that the condition of the hospital had deteriorated after M.G. Hiremath assumed charge as director.

He said even emergency drugs were not available in the hospital. They had to be from outside, he said.

He said caution money deposit, which students had paid, had been withheld in the past without reason and urged the director to stop the practice immediately.

Dr. Prashanth Nayak clarified that unless the demands mentioned in the strike notice issued were met, the junior doctors would continue their agitation boycotting all work in the hospital and in the medical college.

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