Civic docs to go on indefinite strike over deferred salaries
The medical doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NrMCD), together with all senior, resident and junior resident medical doctors working throughout six hospitals and a number of periphery clinics within the civic-run well being centres, on Friday have determined to go on an indefinite strike after being unpaid for over 4 months now.
The medical doctors have determined to begin their indefinite agitation from March 22. Before that, all of them would go on a mass informal go away subsequent Friday.
“If the administration fails to clear our dues with interest till March 22 then we will have no choice but to go on with our indefinite strike,” stated Dr RR Gautam, president, Municipal Corporation Doctors’ Association (MCDA).
The choice was taken in an emergency meet referred to as by the MCDA. The assembly was attended by the medical doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital, Kasturba Hospital, Rajan Babu TB Hospital and few others.
The medical doctors stated they went on a strike final October after their salaries have been pending for over 136 days. During the disaster, Covid-19 sufferers within the hospital had to be shifted. While medical doctors have been assured that such a state of affairs will not come up once more, their salaries have been pending once more for greater than 120 days, the affiliation stated.
The medical doctors at the moment are not solely demanding the salaries but in addition the arrears with curiosity. “We want salaries to be paid with the due interest of the time they were held for,” stated Dr Maruti Sinha.
The non-payment of wage has come as a double whammy for the medical doctors since they’re frightened with the taxes they might obliged to pay on the month finish.
Dr Sunil Kumar, president of Resident Doctors Association (RDA), Kasturba Hospital, stated that the medical doctors wouldn’t settle with out the curiosity. “The doctors are now forced to borrow money to even pay the taxes. This is the level the corporation has reduced us to,” he added.
Dr Sagardeep Bawa, vice-president, RDA-Hindu Rao, stated that medical doctors are even contemplating to resign. “We are being pushed to a position of stand down by denying our basic rights. The doctors are considering resigning or going for an indefinite strike,” he added.
A latest ruling by Supreme Court directed that authorities staff have to be paid curiosity at an applicable price in case their salaries is been delayed.
