Resident doctors at Kasturba Hospital threaten to go on strike

Resident doctors at Delhi’s Kasturba Hospital have warned to go on strike from Saturday if their salary is not disbursed in two days. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia alleged that doctors' salaries and government projects were unlawfully stalled to influence the MCD polls.

The resident doctors of Delhi’s Kasturba Hospital have written a letter to the medical superintendent and said that they have not been paid salaries since November last year. In the letter, the doctors have threatened that if their salary is not disbursed in two days, they will go on strike from Saturday.

"The doctors have been made to compromise because of the financial issues of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi but now they are compelled to show dissent," reads the letter.

“This resolves only after we protest. The salaries of doctors of North MCD are pending from the month of November. Salaries of doctors in East MCD are pending from October. Salaries of staff nurses of North and East MCD are pending from December. Class 4 workers’ salaries for the month of December are pending in East and North MCD,” said a resident doctor, as reported by Indian Express.

Sisodia alleges the move is to influence MCD polls

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia alleged that doctors' salaries and government projects were unlawfully stalled in order to influence the MCD polls.

"The Delhi government's health department has been working round the clock to ensure that the people of the national capital get the best of world-class health facilities at the hospitals run by the city government, which is a priority of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Delhi's health model has received acclamation the world over. Upgrading our hospitals is just another effort to make our health model more efficient and sustainable," he said.

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