Doctors at Hindu Rao Hospital demanded release of outstanding salaries (File)
New Delhi:
The Resident Doctors Association (RDA) of Hindu Rao Municipal Hospital wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, calling for a resolution to the crisis over the expected salaries of doctors at North Corporation facilities.
Abhimanyu Sardana, chairman of the GDR of Delhi’s largest municipal hospital, also said doctors and paramedics from various hospitals run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) will meet in Jantar Mantar on Thursday.
“Through this letter, we wish to convey and express the gravity of our peril to which we are exposed despite the difficulties of the nature of our daily work in the COVID premises”, we read in the letter sent by the GDR to the Premier minister. .
An emolument is an imperative means of reviving one’s attitude, but due to the negligence of the administration for three months, it looks more like penal servitude than moral discipline, ”the letter said.
Doctors at Hindu Rao Hospital, Kasturba Hospital and Rajen Babu Tuberculosis Hospital, all British-era establishments, have been agitating for several days, demanding the release of their salaries pending in recent months.
Recently, they had also written to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and also protested to Jantar Mantar.
“We have constantly interacted with administration and society, but there seems to be a dead end,” the GDR said in the letter.
The Prime Minister is urged to address the concerns of NDMC health workers regarding their wage arrears, arrears, as well as the regularization of remuneration for the regular and timely disbursement of wages, and establish a channel of payment of wages directly by the state government, said the GDR.
He also urged to consider acquiring the functionality of health facilities under NDMC by the Union or the Delhi government as the sustainability of health services in this time of pandemic appears ineffective.
“We are failing miserably at doing our basic groceries and successfully thriving with our daily routine and for the same thing we have been taking action since September 22, but no one seems to be paying attention,” he said.
“We are constrained and helpless and we would be forced to intensify our agitation if no further resolution,” the letter said.
Meanwhile, North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash inspected Kasturba Hospital and Rajen Babu Tuberculosis Hospital on Wednesday and also met with injured hospital workers and assured them that the company was working on solve their problems.
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