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Even as the strike by junior doctors over the mandatory rural posting is set to continue for another day, the government, while asking the doctors to return, also sought to blame them for backing out on their word.
Principal secretary (health & family welfare) K Rathna Kishore had earlier in the day complained that junior doctors had not uttered a word against the mandatory rural service rule when the GO was issued in 2009 and willingly signed the bonds prior to admission in PG courses.
“When they got admitted to the course, they should honour it (their commitment),” he said.
‘‘Some of their demands are genuine demands which the chief minister has promised to meet,’’ he said. But the doctors in return asked what the government was doing since 2010 when it had promised constitution of a committee to work out the modalities.
“Now, they say that the entire report is rubbish. They themselves are not clear over its implementation and they want us to follow it blindly,” Naresh said.
As the war of words raged on, the patients were left in the lurch and around five persons were reported to have died due to lack of medical services.
Meanwhile, in a press release at night, the government said that six demands made by the doctors were accepted and three would be examined.
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