DELHI: North Corporation Patients hospitals faced difficulties such as senior doctors there was a indefinite strike on Tuesday, the day after they had gone on casual leave en masse for their outstanding wages. Maruti Sinha, general secretary of the Municipal Corporation Physicians Association (MCDA) said: “Our demands, which include the release of pending salaries for the last three months, have not been met, so we are now on indefinite strike “.
MCDA, an association of senior permanent physicians of civic hospitals, was established in 1974 and has about 1,200 members. It also includes doctors from hospitals run by two other municipal corporations.
“We have about 700 North Corporation hospital doctors who are part of MCDA. We all went on massive casual leave in protest. And although our conscience does not allow it, our doctors did not see patients even in emergency rooms. , “Sinha said Monday.
Patients in Hindu Rao Hospital and other hospitals run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation faced inconvenience when doctors went to work to lobby for their demands.
Authorities may have hired the services of contracted doctors, he said.
Services were also affected on Monday when senior doctors took massive casual leave and didn’t even see patients in the emergency department.
Hindu Rao Hospital resident doctors are on a relay hunger strike during the last days, demanding the release of their pending wages as well.
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