Rajasthan doctors' strike called off after "consensus" over RTH Bill

The Rajasthan doctors, who have been protesting against the Right to Health bill, called off the protest on Tuesday after reaching a consensus.

"I am happy that finally an agreement has been reached between the government and the doctors on Right to Health and Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to implement Right to Health," Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot expressed his happiness on Twitter. "I hope that the doctor-patient relationship will remain the same in future as well," he added.

Private doctors in Rajasthan were demanding the withdrawal of the Bill passed in the state assembly on March 28. According to the bill, every resident of the state will have the right to emergency treatment and care "without prepayment" in any "public health institution, health care establishment and designated health care centres".

Sources have told India Today that the consensus was reached after the government agreed to three key demands by the protesting doctors.

The report claims that the hospitals, which have got the government's help, will only implement the Right to Health bill in phase 1. However, any hospital which wants to implement it can go ahead.

The hospitals which will have less than 50 beds will not implement the key bill.

In case, if the government wants to make any amendment to the RTC, then two representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) should be included, the doctors' demanded according to the report.