Non-payment of doctors' salaries for three months: Delhi HC takes suo motu cognizance

The Resident Doctors' Association of Delhi's Kasturba Hospital had threatened to tender their mass resignations by June 16, due to non-payment of their salaries for the past three months. The 450-bedded Kasturba Hospital, near the Jama Masjid, falls under the ambit of the North Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

"This is to inform that the Resident doctors have not been salaried for the last three months. No, work, no pay. We are afraid that if we will not be paid by June 16, we will have to move for mass resignations," said a letter sent to the Additional Medical Superintendent of the hospital.

The association said that the doctors, besides putting their lives at risk due to the Covid-19 pandemic, are unable to pay their rents, travelling expenses and are unable to buy essential commodities due to non-disbursal of salaries since March.

Seeking salaries "as soon as possible", the letter, undersigned by Association's General Secretary Dr Ratnesh Kumar Singh, further demanded assurances that regular salary payments will be made.

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