Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 4: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that it is high time that all genuine demands of Doctors of the UT must be fulfilled and Government must abide by its order issued in 2018 in which a high-level committee was framed to address the demands.
Dr Suhail Naik, President DAK said that the committee had to submit its report in one month time, but more than 2 years have already elapsed and the committee failed to submit its report.
“The doctors across the UT have time and again protested peacefully without any strike as we don’t want our people to suffer for lack of health care services in strikes especially during Covid pandemic but authorities must not take this as our weakness,” he said.
Dr Owais H Dar, General Secretary DAK said that Doctors Association Kashmir has held more than 30 meetings in the last 3 years with previous and current Directors of Health, Commissioner Secretaries, and Financial Commissioners apart from previous Cabinet ministers of Health and Finance Depts.
Dr Mohd Yusuf Tak, Convenor Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination Committee (JKDCC) said and it is forlorn that despite numerous representations our files are gathering dust at the Civil Secretariat.
“If our genuine demands are not fulfilled then we under the banner of Jammu and Kashmir Doctors Coordination Committee (JKDCC) which includes all the doctors along the length and breadth of the region would be forced to go on token strike. But we don’t want to go on strike as of now due to the ongoing 2nd wave of Covid-19,” he said.
DAK has appealed to the LG J&K UT, Manoj Sinha, Advisor for HME, RR Bhatnagar and Financial Commissioner HME, Atal Dulloo to take personnel interest in mitigating the long pending genuine demands of doctors of the union territory.
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