Right to health bill And doctors Strike update: A solution has been found to the ongoing conflict between the doctors and the government in Rajasthan regarding the right to health. The doctors’ strike has ended in the state. In this regard, a letter has also been issued by the Indian Medical Association ie IMA late in the evening. Doctors will return to work on Wednesday.
highlights
- Private hospitals strike ends after 16 days
- Doctors returned to work on their own terms
- MOU signed between state government and doctors regarding RTH
Government and doctors both stick to their stand
Doctors of private hospitals had said from day one that the Right to Health Bill is unconstitutional. This is not acceptable, it should be withdrawn. The government did not want to withdraw this bill under any circumstances. When the doctors came to know that the government was about to pass the bill in the assembly, the private hospital operators stopped functioning in the hospitals. The government passed the bill on 21 March. This further increased the anger of the doctors. The doctors intensified the movement. On the other hand, the Health Minister and the Chief Minister kept on giving statements time and again that the Right to Health Bill is in the public interest. It will remain in force. This was not acceptable to the doctors at all. On March 26, a delegation of doctors met Chief Secretary Usha Sharma. During this, the doctors clearly said that Right to Health (RTH) is not acceptable, it should be cancelled. Having said this, the doctor left the meeting and returned.
Government signed MoU with private hospital operators
Government doctors and resident doctors also supported the doctors of private hospitals who were on strike. In such a situation, the government had to bow down to the demands of the doctor. After midnight on Monday 3rd March i.e. till 3.30 am on Tuesday 4th March, an agreement was reached between the doctors and the government. The biggest thing in the agreement was that the Right to Health Act will not apply to those private hospitals which neither took land on government concession nor took any other help. Also, hospitals with less than 50 beds are already out of the purview of this law. When the government accepted this condition, 95 percent of the private hospitals were out of the purview of the Right to Health Act. For this, the doctors of the private hospital signed an MoU with the government. A condition has been kept in the MoU that whenever this law is amended in future, two doctors of the Indian Medical Council should be included in the suggestion committee. Along with this, it was agreed upon by the police not to register direct cases against the doctors in cases of dispute and to implement a single window system for redressal of complaints.
Right to health will be applicable only to these hospitals
The Right to Health Act will apply only to government hospitals and hospitals affiliated to private medical colleges. Hospitals attached to medical colleges were brought under the purview of the law because hundreds of students would be studying there so that their responsibility could be fixed. Also, government-aided private hospitals i.e. hospitals operated on PPP mode and hospitals operated by trusts have been kept under the purview of this law. The number of such hospitals is very less. The snake also died and the stick did not break as a result of the solution that came out after 16 days of strike. That is, the government has implemented the law and kept private hospitals out of the purview of the law. (Report – Ramswaroop Lamrod, Jaipur)
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