AP doctors’ group urges govt to ‘immediately’ release pending salaries of government medical college teachers

The Andhra Pradesh Government Doctors’ Association (APGDA) has urged the government to “immediately” release the pending salaries for teaching doctors working in the government medical colleges, The Hindu reported.

The doctors’ group has also requested the Andhra Pradesh government to implement the 2016 University Grants Commission (UGC) pay revision.

D Jayadheer Babu and general secretary B Ramesh Kumar, during a state-level conference, organised by the APGDA, have urged the government to fulfil their demands, as per the report.

While AP JAC Amravati state chairman Bopparaju Venkateswarlu stated that the government doctor teachers have a key role in protecting public health and the government had a responsibility to safeguard their financial and service-bound benefits, the report read.

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Venkateswarlu also assured the doctors that their grievances would be brought to the government’s attention and an immediate resolution would be given, it added.

Furthermore, MLC Allapati Rajendra Prasad also said that the demands raised by teaching doctors were justified and assured that he would take up their concerns with the AP chief minister and work towards resolving them through dialogue, the report mentioned.

In February this year, Careers360 reported that around a quarter of departments at government medical colleges (GMCs) in Telangana don’t have a single professor, while around 6% of them are without any faculty and staffed only by senior residents.

It was revealed through a study, conducted by the Telangana Senior Resident Doctors Association (TSRDA), which also found that many departments lack regular teachers and are staffed by temporary appointees.

The newer medical colleges , which were established across the state in recent years, and non-clinical disciplines, such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, forensic medicine and toxicology and social and preventive medicine, had the worst condition.