No pay for 3 mnths, docs at 2 hospitals ready to quit

No pay for 3 mnths, docs at 2 hospitals ready to quit

Paras.Singh@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:11.06.2020

The resident doctors of Kasturba Hospital and Hindu Rao Hospital have threatened to mass resign if their salary arrears for the past three months are not credited to them.

The Resident Doctor’s Association of the Kasturba Hospital has written to the additional medical superintendent, stating that they have not been paid since March. “All the residents are working during the Covid-19 pandemic, putting their own and their families’ lives at risk. Over that, we are not getting our salaries,” the letter states.

The letter goes on to add: “We are afraid that if we are not paid by June 16, we will have to move for mass resignation. We hope authorities concerned will take immediate action,” it states.

The RDA at Hindu Rao, in their letter to the medical superintendent, urged the administration to release the salaries of three months by June 18, and to also ensure a monthly disbursement of salaries to all the health care workers.

A north corporation official said that the civic body is facing acute financial crunch and salaries are paid in ascending order, with safai karamcharis being paid first and senior officials getting it last.

Dr Sunil Kumar, who is the president of RDA at Kasturba Hospital, asked how could doctors be expected to work without any money in such testing times. “This is inhumane. Being frontline workers we should be paid our pending salaries as soon as possible and a regular salary pay out should be ensured,” he added.