Difference of opinion: ‘Senior doctors’ resolution motivated by jealousy’
PMA has condemned a revised service structure negotiated between the YDA, govt.
File photo of young doctors protesting.. PHOTO: INP/FILE
LAHORE:
The Young Doctors’ Association has criticised a recent Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) resolution against the revised service structure negotiated between the YDA and the provincial government in April following rounds of talks and YDA-led protest drives.
In a post titled PMA CRYBABY EXPOSED on its facebook page, the YDA has put down the PMA resolution against the revised service structure and its request to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to look into the matter.
The post has said that the resolution showed that senior doctors were jealous of YDA’s success in getting the revised service structure from the government without assistance from the PMA. It says that the YDA respected their seniors and would not want to ‘respond’ to the PMA statement. It says the “real face of the PMA needed to be exposed”. Some of the comments on the post also condemn the PMA and called its members “power hungry”.
The PMA resolution had objected to the bar on changing doctors’ cadres (from general cadre to teaching cadre) without a loss of seniority. It had noted that under the revised structure a general cadre medical professional in basic pay scale grade -18 or -19 could not join the teaching cadre (allowed in the previous structure) on the post of senior registrar. The revised structure requires such a medical professional to sit the Punjab Public Service Commission examination for the entry level position in the teaching cadre.
Talking to The Express Tribune on Saturday, YDA president Ajmal Chaudhry said that the revised service structure catered to the concerns of both junior and senior doctors. He dismissed the PMA claim that there was any illegality in new the service structure. Responding to the objection raised in the PMA resolution, Chaudhry said that medical professionals should be required to stay in the cadres they chose at the time of hiring. “If someone wants to switch to a different cadre, they should start afresh,” he said.
PMA Lahore president Tanveer Anwar said that his association was opposed to the revision in the service structure preventing medical professionals from switching cadres without losing their seniority. He said the revised structure was illegal and could be challenged in the court.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2015.
The Young Doctors’ Association has criticised a recent Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) resolution against the revised service structure negotiated between the YDA and the provincial government in April following rounds of talks and YDA-led protest drives.
In a post titled PMA CRYBABY EXPOSED on its facebook page, the YDA has put down the PMA resolution against the revised service structure and its request to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to look into the matter.
The post has said that the resolution showed that senior doctors were jealous of YDA’s success in getting the revised service structure from the government without assistance from the PMA. It says that the YDA respected their seniors and would not want to ‘respond’ to the PMA statement. It says the “real face of the PMA needed to be exposed”. Some of the comments on the post also condemn the PMA and called its members “power hungry”.
The PMA resolution had objected to the bar on changing doctors’ cadres (from general cadre to teaching cadre) without a loss of seniority. It had noted that under the revised structure a general cadre medical professional in basic pay scale grade -18 or -19 could not join the teaching cadre (allowed in the previous structure) on the post of senior registrar. The revised structure requires such a medical professional to sit the Punjab Public Service Commission examination for the entry level position in the teaching cadre.
Talking to The Express Tribune on Saturday, YDA president Ajmal Chaudhry said that the revised service structure catered to the concerns of both junior and senior doctors. He dismissed the PMA claim that there was any illegality in new the service structure. Responding to the objection raised in the PMA resolution, Chaudhry said that medical professionals should be required to stay in the cadres they chose at the time of hiring. “If someone wants to switch to a different cadre, they should start afresh,” he said.
PMA Lahore president Tanveer Anwar said that his association was opposed to the revision in the service structure preventing medical professionals from switching cadres without losing their seniority. He said the revised structure was illegal and could be challenged in the court.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2015.