Mysuru: Even as the adamant attitude of both the State Government and private doctors continued on the fourth day today with regard to the controversial Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendment) Bill, 2017, locked gates and notices welcomed the patients in all the private hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and diagnostic centres here in city. Meanwhile, even…
Mysuru: Following the ongoing agitation by private medical practitioners and private hospitals against the proposed amendment to Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act, a relay hunger strike has been started at JK Grounds here by private doctors of the city. Earlier, the members of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Mysore Branch, assembled at a meeting…
Mysuru: The private doctors in the State have taken a serious decision to shut down all services at private hospitals, nursing homes and clinics including in-patient departments from tomorrow. This unanimous decision was taken at a meeting of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Mysore Branch, held at its premises on New Sayyaji Rao Road, here…
Mysuru: There was mixed response on the second day to the indefinite strike call given by the private practitioners in the city regarding the tabling of the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendment) Act in the ongoing Assembly Session at Belagavi. A few of the private hospitals and clinics were functioned normally a day after the…
Belagavi/Mysuru: Nearly 15,000 private doctors from various parts of the State converged at Belagavi as part of ‘Belagavi Chalo,’ protesting against the proposed amendments to the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act, even as the winter session of the State Legislature began this morning at Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi. Around 600 doctors from Mysuru also…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD [Continued from Nov. 10] While I’m writing this in continuation of my last Friday’s article, the Draconian provisions enshrined in the proposed amendment to the already infamous KPME Act have been very well portrayed by my good friend Dr. K.S. Kumar in his article published in the SOM yesterday….
Mysuru: Healthcare services in city will be crippled tomorrow as more than 600 private hospital doctors are leaving to Belagavi today as part of “Belagavi Chalo” to protest against the proposed amendments to the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act. The doctors from Mysuru will join over 25,000 doctors from across the State who are…
What is that we are opposing? By Dr. K.S. Kumar, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Mysuru Lakhs of patients are facing untold misery by the ongoing tussle between doctors and the Karnataka Government. They are caught in the crossfire for no fault of theirs. Doctors want them to understand their plight and why they are forced to…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The proposed amendment to the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act is on the anvil and the issue has indeed become very hot with all private doctors across the State protesting against it. While all people know that there is trouble brewing between the government and private doctors most…
Mysuru: Nearly 1,500 doctors, all private practitioners gathered at the Platinum Jubilee Auditorium at JK Grounds this morning to protest against the implementation of the ‘draconian’ Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendments) Bill 2017, by burning a copy of the Act. This is the second time in nearly five months (first strike was on June 16)…
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