After Nurses, Doctors At Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital To Go On Strike Over Non-Payment Of Salary

Three days after nurses of Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital began their strike over non-payment of salary dues doctors there have also threatened to follow suit.

Resident doctors at Hindu Rao Hospital have threatened to go on an indefinite strike from November 18 over the non-payment of their due salaries and DA pending for the past three months.

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Strike postponed earlier due to Dengue outbreak

Earlier, the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) had announced a pen-down strike from November 11 asking for salaries to be released by the evening of November 10. However, after the assurance of Medical Superintendent and seeing the rising cases of Dengue in the city, the doctors postponed the strike.

However, the RDA doctors in a fresh letter to MSA have threatened to go on pen down strike on November 15,16 and 17 from 9 am to 12.30 pm and indefinite strike from November 18 if pending salaries and DA are not paid by evening of November 14.

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Indefinite strike

Earlier, in a letter to the Medical Superintendent, the RDA doctors had said, "If our salaries and DA up to date are not released on or before November 14, we will go on pen-down strike strike on November 15, 16 and 17 from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and unfortunately, we will go on indefinite strike from November 18 Thursday."

Due to the ongoing tussle between the doctors, nurses and hospital administration, major activities of the hospital have been impacted. The operation theaters also remained closed and a large number of surgeries have been cancelled.

Nurses of the NDMC-run hospital had launched a shutdown for half a day from Tuesday. The union has decided to stop work from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm as a mark of protest over non-payment.

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They alleged that the nurses have not been paid for months and that they are severely short on manpower as nearly half of the posts are vacant.

According to the nurses, due to this, they are forced to work 12-14 hours a day, and even after that, they are not being paid.

Not the first time

This is not the first time doctors and nurses at Hindu Rao Hospital were forced to go on strike demanding the release of their salary dues.

In October 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis too, more than 200 resident doctors and 300 nursing staff of Hindu Rao Hospital had gone on a strike over salary dues from July.

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Doctors allege that due to the nonpayment of salaries for months they have been struggling to meet their needs while putting themselves at risk of getting infected with COVID-19 every day.

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