Hindu Rao Doctors Strike: Delhi Govt to shift COVID patients to state-run hospitals

The doctors and nursing staff at the hospital are on partial "symbolic indefinite strike" since Monday wherein they refrained from all services, except emergency, and protested daily for two hours in the morning over the non-payment of their salaries due since June.

The Resident Doctors Association leaders had told IANS that the decision to strike work was taken after their protests did not yield results.

"We held a discussion with hospital administration and NDMC officials, who told us that we will be paid our dues within 60 days. We are managing without salaries for four months now. How are we even going to survive without money? We have been forced to take this decision to strike work," Abhimanyu Sardana, President of RDA, Hindu Rao Hospital, said.

Hindu Rao Hospital is the largest municipal hospital in Delhi with 900 beds and is a dedicated Covid-19 facility. Many of its healthcare workers had contracted the infection earlier.

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