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Dentists hope to get a smile

NT Bureau
Chennai, Mar 14:

        Dentists and dental assistants, working in Government Hospitals on a contract basis, will go on a hunger strike tomorrow near the Chepauk Guest House here between 10 am and 4.30 pm to draw the attention of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to regularise their service.

        According to a press release issued by Doctors' Association for Social Equality (DASE) said that about 50 dental doctors and dental assistants had been working on a contract basis for more than three years at government hospitals and were employed only three days a week.

        DASE would organise the hunger strike and its general secretary G R Ravindranath would lead the doctors. CPI State secretary D Pandian would deliver the inaugural address.

        More than 100 dental doctors and dental assistants would take part in the demonstration, the release added.


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