‘Fulfil demands of government doctors'
In a statement issued, the association said that Tamil Nadu is a model State in terms of medical infrastructure and departmental activities. However, government doctors who contribute to it are paid low.
During a protest by government doctors in 2019, the Chief Minister, who was the Leader of the Opposition then, expressed support and assured that the salary demands of government doctors would be fulfilled in the next DMK government. But the government has not fulfilled the demand.
Noting that many government hospitals have been opened in the last four years since the DMK government came to power, LCC demanded that the existing government hospitals should be upgraded, and the number of doctors and nurses should be doubled.
LCC also demanded a government job for Divya, wife of Vivekanandan, a government doctor who died of COVID-19.
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