Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Sept 22: The members of Kashmir Private Diagnostic Centres Association (KPDCA) today staged a protest against the new rules framed by the Government.
Scores of owners of Diagnostic Centres under the banner of KPDCA appeared in the Press Enclave and were heard raising slogans in favor of their demands alleging that the Government was trying to destroy the diagnostic profession.
“They (Govt) want to provide benefits to doctors at the cost of our livelihood. What about our dependents and who will feed them? How are our children going to get the education and how are we going to meet the basic requirements and basic needs of our families,” Rouf Rangraze, President of the KPDCA said.
He said that the authorities are trying to snatch their right to survive. “What they are doing is tantamount to genocide,” he said.
The protesters said that the diagnostic profession is the most important and broadest quarter of the private sector. “The strategy seems to hand over the same to shark-type corporates who have established their business in the Valley on a large scale,” they said.
They said that the day is near when their labs and clinics will become history. “The Government has to reverse such rules and ensure that we are allowed to function as we have been for years; the concerned higher-ups should intervene in the matter,” they said.
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