Committee to consider demands of protesting medical college teachers

Jaipur: The medical education department has constituted a 10-member committee under commissioner, medical education for resolving the issues of medical college teachers, who have been demanding that their 15-point demands be fulfilled. The doctors organised a sadbuddhi yagya on Monday and threatened to intensify agitation from June 1. One of the demands is to increase the fee of doctors. The government doctors can take Rs 200 for private practice, which has not increased since 2011.Dr Dhananjai Agarwal, president, Rajasthan Medical College Teachers Association, said, “We organised asadbhuddhi yagya to encourage the government to fulfill our demands.”He said that the capping of fees for government doctors for private practice has not been increased for over a decade. A senior professor of SMS Hospital can take Rs 200 as fee from a patient, which has not been increased since 2011. “A committee of principals of medical colleges was constituted in 2014 which had recommended that the fee should be doubled. Fee for senior professors doing private practice should be increased to Rs400, the committee had recommended but it has not been fulfilled,” he said. The agitating doctors pointed out that they had been protesting for the past one month peacefully wearing black armbands. In the interest of the patients, the doctors said they are providing treatment to people.