When docs down stethoscopes

Doctors launched a 48-hour token strike yesterday in protest against what they have described as the government's failure to implement a six-point agreement reached between the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) and the Ministry of Health.

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They are demanding that their allowances be increased and a separate service minute be introduced for the state sector doctors, among other things. The government has claimed that the doctors' demands are unreasonable, and the strike did not cripple the state health institutions. It is sounding just like its predecessors.

The government is either misinformed or believing in its own propaganda lies. Doctors' strikes always have a crippling impact on the state-run hospitals and cause unbearable suffering to patients who are dependent on free healthcare. The government should stop making false claims, and face reality.