Non payment of salaries to doctors, medicos will be made criminal offence: Centre tells SC
The counsel for the petitioner argued before the court that salaries were not being paid regularly to the healthcare workers involved in Covid-19 treatment, and doctors who were treating Covid-19 patients were not quarantined unless they were under the high-risk category.;
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it will issue a direction to all the states under the Disaster Management Act to pay timely salaries and remunerations to all doctors and healthcare workers, and any breach would be considered be a criminal offence.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, made a statement before the apex court that the Centre is willing to make non-payment of salary a criminal offence under the Disaster Management Act.
Mehta contended before the bench that the Centre will issue a direction under Section 10 of the Disaster Management Act.
A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.R. Shah asked the Centre to issue necessary directions to states and Union Territories, and sought a compliance report in four weeks.
The response from the Centre came on a petition filed by a doctor, Arushi Jain, on quarantine facilities for medical professionals involved in the treatment of Covid-19 patients.
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