Senior doctors of NDMC hospitals go on mass go away, threaten indefinite strike

Senior doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC)-run hospitals went on a day-long informal go away en masse on Monday because the disaster over pending salaries of medics of civic-run amenities deepened with no decision in sight, officers mentioned.

R R Gautam, president of the Municipal Corporation Doctors’ Association (MCDA) on Monday mentioned, “If our demands are not met, we will go on indefinite strike from tomorrow.”

The MCDA, an affiliation of senior everlasting doctors of the civic hospitals, was established in 1974 and has about 1,200 members. It additionally consists of doctors from hospitals run by different two municipal firms.

The MCDA on Saturday had issued a press release and threatened that its members from NDMC hospitals would go on a mass informal go away if their pending salaries of the final three months weren’t launched.

The affiliation already has given adequate time to authorities involved to resolve the difficulty and pay our salaries, “but they have not done anything to solve the problem, and instead they appear to be unconcerned with the plight of doctors,” it had mentioned.

Recently, it had additionally issued a press release expressing solidarity with their agitating colleagues – resident doctors – of Hindu Rao Hospital and Kasturba Hospital, each beneath the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), who’re additionally protesting over their pending salaries.

The MCDA had just lately threatened to go on an indefinite strike from October 19, but it surely had later determined to defer the strike in “public interest“.

The association, after holding an emergency General Body Meeting on Saturday, had “unanimously decided to protest against non-payment of our salaries for the past three months,” MCDA basic secretary Maruti Sinha had mentioned.

“The first decision taken in the General Body Meeting was mass casual leave by all senior doctors of the NDMC on Monday. And total strike for indefinite period of all senior doctors from Tuesday, if salaries of all doctors, including resident doctors are not released by Monday, and if a permanent solution like handing over MCD health services to the central government, is not decided,” the MCDA assertion mentioned.

The authorities are to be held “solely responsible for this unprecedented strike, as they are neither bothered about their doctors – so-called ‘Corona warriors’ – nor are they concerned about patients,” the assertion mentioned.

The disaster over the pending salaries has deepened as 5 of the resident doctors of the 900-bed Hindu Rao Hospital are sitting on a starvation strike since Friday with the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) saying the step was taken as nobody is resolving the difficulty of their pending salaries.

Resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital on Sunday took their protest to the streets as they demonstrated at Connaught Place and later burnt an effigy of Ravana on the premises of the ability to attract consideration to their plight.