New Delhi|HL
The Delhi Medical Association raised issue of non-payment of salaries to the frontline corona warriors in Delhi hospitals.
The DMA is concerned about salary of resident doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), including Kasturba Hospital and Hindu Rao Hospital and urged Home Minister Amit Shah to intervene in the subject.
While talking with Healthlive Dr. Girish Tyagi, President DMA said in this tough time of pandemic COVID-19, doctors who are sacrificing everything to save lives as a frontliners, if their salaries are not paid then it adds to the stress, their families also require money to sustain.
Resident doctors of NDMC’s 450-bedded Kasturba Hospital had on Wednesday threatened mass resignation if the authorities did not release their three months’ salary.
Recently, resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention to release their salaries.
“DMA is deeply concerned about the issue of non-payment of salaries of resident doctors of Kasturba Hospital, Hindu Rao Hospital and other hospitals and dispensaries under North Delhi Municipal Corporation who have been working selflessly and tirelessly in this highly stressful times of COVID-19 pandemic for the last three months,” the DMA letter to Amit Shah said.
