Bengaluru, July 8 -- The State Government will take up the issue of regularisation of services of 600 contract doctors during the next Cabinet meeting, said Health Minister B. Sriramulu.

Salaries of the doctors on contract were recently raised to Rs. 60,000 from Rs. 45,000 after they threatened to quit. The doctors, who met Sriramulu to submit their resignations, agreed to resume work after the Minister assured them on Tuesday that the issue had been discussed with the CM and that it would be taken up at the next Cabinet meeting. Contract doctors had two primary demands - that their pay is increased and are made permanent. However, their other major demand of being made permanent was left unaddressed.

"Contract doctors who are protestin...