Salary turmoil: NDMC’s resident doctors waiting for three month’s salary, threaten mass resignation

Amid coronavirus lockdown, the job crisis has been heightened as many people were forced to give resignation while many were fired from their respective positions. A fresh incident that has come to light is about coronavirus frontline workers who are also facing the same issue at NDMC hospital.
 
According to the reports in news agency PTI, residents doctors at Kasturba Hospital threatened mass resignation if authorities didn’t release their three months’ pending salary.
 
As per the resident doctors’ association at the 450-bedded Kasturba Hospital of NDMC claimed that they have not been paid salary since March.
 
Many doctors and staff of the hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus till the date. But, no immediate reaction from the NDMC authorities.
 
Dr. Sunil Kumar, president of the RDA of the colonial-era hospital (earlier Victoria Zenana Hospital) said, “We cannot work without money.” He also added that being the frontline worker they should be paid their salaries. This is only their demands, nothing more.
 
"We are afraid that if we are not paid our salary by June 16, we will have to go for mass resignation," the RDA president said.

RDA also released the statement on the same and demand and action plan. Recently, resident doctors of the NDMC-run Hindu Rao Hospital had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asked his intervention in getting their delayed salary.

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