Doctors associated to the IMA in Goa on Friday participatedin the countrywide slowdown against the Centre's recent decision to allowpostgraduate ayurvedic doctors to perform various surgeries, with a seniorofficial appealing that services were not hit due to alternative arrangements.
Speaking about, Indian Medical Association-Goa President Dr.S Samuel said that doctors in Goa had been told to withdraw services fromproviding non-essential and non-Covid-related services till later in the evening.
Samuel said, "We have requested our member doctors towithdraw all services other than these two". The continue strike will culminate at 6 pm.
He stated that he was hoping that the central governmentwill pay attention to the demands of theIMA. "We have already raised this issue in Goa with Chief Minister DrPramod Sawant," Samuel said.
A senior Official in the state Executive of Health Servicessaid: "No alternative services or treatment of Covid-19 patients has beenimpacted on account of the strike by IMA-allied doctors. We have made specialprovisions at our public health centers to confirm that the common man is not obstructedby the absence of doctors for routine duties