Andhra Pradesh government doctors association treat all doctors equally

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Government Doctors Association (APGDA) appealed to the State government to treat all the doctors equally by paying equal salaries and providing equal perks.

Dr Pidakala Shyam Sundar, secretary general of the Association, said that the expert specialist doctors and the super specialists who are also called teaching doctors working in the medical colleges and their affiliated hospitals are poorly paid with a difference of thousands of rupees when compared to other doctors in the government service. The situation was the result of the mistakes committed by the erstwhile governments and the bureaucrats, he said and hoped that the administration headed by Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy would do justice to them.

Dr Shyam Sundar pointed out that these doctors were still receiving the salaries as per the Pay Revision Commission of 2006 making it clear how these specialists were neglected for the last 14 years. "It is high time a Pay Revision Commission is set up to do justice," he said.

He said that after the outbreak of Covid-19, these doctors have been working day and night in the dangerous situations. "Flowers were showered on us and people clapped for us but nobody cared for our salaries or the promotions," he rued.

Some of the specialists did not get any promotions for the last 25 years and many of them retired from the service without pay rise or promotion, he said.

He appealed to the government to consider the problems of the doctors under three different wings — the Directorate of Medical Education (DME), the Directorate of Health (DH) and Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP).