Radiologists defer strike by 3 weeks as state calls for talks

Radiologists across the state have deferred the strike they had called on Tuesday by three weeks after the state government agreed to hold talks with them to discuss their grievances.

Radiologists across the state had decided to shut clinics on August 30 in protest against sealing of the ultra-sound machines seized in a crackdown. The BMC had sealed 35 machines.

There will be a meeting with the chief minister in the second week of September. We will put all our grievances forth and hope to come to a reasonable consensus, said Jignesh Thakker,general secretary of the Indian Radiologists’ and Imaging Association (IRIA). Apart from the release of the machines,the meeting with the chief minister will also discuss the tentative ban on portable ultrasound machines besides the recent High Court decision to make the Silent Observer machine mandatory in sonography clinics.

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The chargesheet in the case of sealed machines should have been filed a month back but has yet not been done. Many clinics have been operating without ultrasound machines and patients have been suffering. The matter needs to be addressed immediately, said Thakker.

The 35 ultrasound machines were sealed as part of BMCs ‘Save the Girl Child’ campaign. The civic body,however,does agree that many of the machines were sealed because of minor reasons.

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