To break the deadlock, a meeting was held between delegation of All Rajasthan In-Service Doctors Association (ARISDA) and the state government at secretariat which began at 6 pm.
It was a repeat telecast at the secretariat as the government and striking doctors failed to reach an agreement and the parleys were called off after 11 pm on Thursday.
Earlier, in-service government doctors deployed at PHCs CHCs and District hospitals across the state continued to remain absent from their duties on Thursday, for the fourth consecutive day. To break the deadlock, a meeting was held between delegation of All Rajasthan In-Service Doctors Association (ARISDA) and the state government at secretariat which began at 6 pm.
As the previous two negotiations failed to yield any result mainly because of the fact that the health minister Kalicharan Saraf had clearly said that he was not endorsed to take a call on the financial aspects of the striking doctors.
As a result, officials from state’s finance department, including the ACS (finance) DB Gupta, Principal Secretary (finance) Deepak Upreti and Secretary (budget) Manju Rajpal were roped in for the talks, including Saraf, Principal Secretary (Health) Veenu Gupta and secretary (Medical Education) Anand Kumar.
According to sources, after a five-hour long two rounds of talks, the deadlock continued. Saraf said, “It seems that the striking doctors were not in a mood to resolve the deadlock. Even as the government was willing to fulfil 5 out of six financial issues and take a fresh load of Rs 200 crore to pacify the striking doctors, but the striking medicos left the talks in a huff. Now the government has to think to initiate action against them.
However, on the other hand, Dr Ajay Chaudhary, president ARISDA, told DNA that, “The government, it seems, was to get us to talks on gun-point. The administrative officers have been behaving rudely with us.”
Meanwhile, as the doctors’ strike entered in 4th day, in the support of doctors 33-point demands resident doctors also tried to build pressure on the government. Arrangements at OPD in hospitals attached to medical colleges in five divisional headquarters including the capital Jaipur, also got effected as resident doctors announced to go on indefinite strike after handing over a memorandum to their respective college principals.
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