New Delhi|Ekta
After conveying again and again messages to the government over the issue of 7th pay commission by resident doctors , recently members of FORDA met with the state Health Minister Satyendar Jain.
In the informal meeting, the health minister said, that the resident doctors will get the salaries according to 7th CPC recommendations and has asked them not go on mass leave.
On this the doctors asked him for a formal meeting and formal orders that all the resident doctors will be paid as per 7th CPC, else we will go ahead with our plans on 17th January 2017 siad Dr.Pankaj Solanki, President ,FORDA while talking with Healthlive.
For the resident doctors in central government hospitals this recommendations have already been implemented but they have not been implemented for us,” FORDA president Pankaj Solanki said.
“The implementation will bring in a hike in the salaries of the resident doctors. We want the health minister to issue orders to all its hospitals. We are still looking forward to a positive response from the minister in this regard,” he said.
Dr.D.S.Meena, Vice President , FORDA said if the demands will not met, the resident doctors in Delhi government-run hospitals will go on mass leave from 17 January.
Further Dr.Solanki, said ‘we don’t want to go on leave or strike, we want to work and the government has to give us the results. When all the doctors are getting salary as per the 7th CPC, why we are not paid accordingly he added.
Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) an association created for the welfare of resident doctors all over India, was founded in Delhi three years back.