The proposed amendments to the KPME Act are being brought in “undue haste” and the government must immediately withdraw the Bill, said BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa, batting for private doctors, here on Wednesday.
“I assure private doctors that we will scarp the amendments within 24 hours of the BJP coming to power, even if this government rides roughshod over imposing the amendments. So I request the doctors to go back to work and serve patients and wait for another three months,” Mr. Yeddyurappa said.
When quizzed as to why the BJP was opposed to the amendments, he said the BJP also supported correcting certain anomalies in the private medical sector, but what the government is doing is “inhuman to the doctors”. “The move, the way it is being implemented, is also not pro-poor, since the doctors are striking work and government hospitals are in such a bad shape,” he said.
