JK Govt.constituted team take stock of situation arising out of doctors strike,BJP urged concede de

            Srinagar/Jammu, October 20 (Vijay Kumar) – Jammu and Kashmir government has constituted a team of Ministers and Advisors to take stock of the situation arising out of the doctors strike.

          The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in a high level meeting  in Srinagar on Tuesday  constituted a committee of his ministerial colleagues comprising of  Abdul Rahim Rather, Minister for Finance & Ladakh Affairs,  Sham Lal Sharma, Minister for Health, Horticulture & Floriculture,  R.S. Chib, Minister for Technical Education, Medical Education, Youth Services & Sports ,   Javed Ahmed Dar, Minister of State for Medical Education and his Advisors  Mubarak Ahmad Gul and   Devender Singh Rana to take stock of the situation and take appropriate measures so that patient care does not suffer.

          The committee so constituted shall visit Jammu and Srinagar medical facilities on Wednesday the 21st of October and discuss various aspects with the concerned stake holders.

Meanwhile BJP State President Ashok Khajuria on Tuesday has urged upon the NC-Congress coalition government to immediately concede the genuine demands of the agitating doctors so that the proper health services are resumed in government hospitals in the state. He said today even after 17 days of continuous strike by doctors, the government has failed to break the impasse which speaks how serious it is towards providing medical facilities to the poor and needy people of the state.

Ashok Khajuria, who is going to Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, to attend an important meeting, assured that he will personally take up the matter with the State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and seek his intervention to resole the present situation.

Khajuria said when the people of the state are already finding it difficult to arrange even 2-time meal for them in these days of steep price hike, a poor person can not manage costly treatment in private hospitals and nursing homes in a situation when the work in government hospitals is totally paralysed due to the ongoing strike. He said it is not only the doctors but thousands of employees of SRTC, Home Guards and unemployed youth, who are on strike for months together but no one cares. The concerned ministers are only giving lip service instead of understanding the gravity of the situation and the problems being faced by the masses. It seems that there exists no government, he alleged.

The BJP chief said it is the primary duty of any government to ensure that essential services are made available to the people and hence it becomes imperative on its part to take timely decisions instead of lingering on the issues which are directly linked to the welfare of the common people.

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