Sachin Pilot says that CM Gehlot should listen to doctors who are protesting, as a strike affects Rajasthan health services.

According to Congress leader Sachin Pilot, protesting doctors should be heard by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot because the Right to Health Bill protests is causing problems for patients across the state. After government doctors joined the strike with private doctors against the Bill, some parts of Rajasthan's medical services continued to be affected.

"The Ashok Gehlot government should listen to protesting doctors," ex-Deputy CM Sachin Pilot told the doctors in Jaipur on Thursday. The state's patients are being harassed."

Private doctors in Rajasthan have taken to the streets to demand that the Right to Health (RTH) Bill, which was approved by the state Assembly on Tuesday, be withdrawn. Every state resident will be able to get emergency treatment and care at any public health institution, healthcare establishment, or designated healthcare center without having to pay upfront.

Doctors and private hospitals have been fighting against parts of the RTH bill, like the idea that patients in an emergency should get treatment without having to pay any fees or costs upfront. The doctors claimed that they have not defined "emergency."

In support of privately agitating doctors, government doctors went on a one-day strike on Wednesday. However, in OPDs in Bharatpur, Alwar, and Udaipur, a number of government doctors saw patients. The strike did not affect ICUs or emergency services.

GOVT WARNS OF ACTION

The news agency PTI reported that the state government has threatened disciplinary action against government doctors for taking leave without permission amid raging protests. After being absent from work for two hours in Alwar, Bharatpur, Udaipur, and Dungarpur, some of the doctors resumed their duties.

Several days ago, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot made a second plea to the doctors to end their strike because it was not in the public interest.

On Sunday, Chief Secretary Usha Sharma and other high-ranking state government officials met with a delegation of agitating private hospitals and promised to discuss their suggestions for the Bill.

The doctors, on the other hand, insisted that no discussion would be possible until the Bill was withdrawn.

All private health facilities, even small doctor-run clinics, would be required to invest in emergency case management infrastructure and ambulance facilities under the RTH law's provisions.