Gandhinagar: The PG senior resident doctors in government medical colleges at Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar will go on strike from Wednesday. They will only attend to Covid and emergency services.

The striking doctors are protesting against the unfulfilled demand to consider their 1 yr bond for senior residentship. The junior doctors have also declared that if their demand is not met within 24 hours, they will refuse to attend to even covid and emergency services from tomorrow.

The junior doctors say that despite spending 17 months of their 36-month residentship in adverse circumstances such as the Covid pandemic, the 1-year bond is still not being considered as senior residentship. The health minister has himself backed this demand of the junior doctors and asked concerned officials to take appropriate action in this matter but the commissioner’s office has still not issued any directions in writing.

The senior residency of the senior resident doctors of the PG medical batch of 2017 and 2018 was considered under government bond service. On the same lines, senior resident doctors of the 2019 PG medical batch are demanding that their senior residentship be considered under government bond service.

If 1,000 resident doctors in Ahmedabad and other civil hospitals go on strike, healthcare and treatment facilities are likely to get impacted in a major way. DeshGujarat.