Kerala Cuts Salary, 80 percent Junior Doctors quit COVID duty
Kerala: In a major uproar, more than 80 percent of junior doctors appointed to COVID-19 duty have submitted their resignation letter while protesting against the government's decision of implementing a salary cut.
These Junior Doctors are among 1080 MBBS graduates who passed out of government medical colleges this year and were appointed to extend their services as frontline workers on COVID facilities. However, nearly 870 aggravated Junior doctors have quit their jobs over the issue.
The medicos were appointed in several facilities on a temporary basis for three months in order to ensure the availability of the workforce amidst the pandemic and were promised a stipend of rupees 42,000 per month. However, the government declared that they will be getting only 27,000 considering the financial crunch of the state. Opposing the decision of the government, almost 870 junior doctors handed over their resignations.
870 temporary #COVID19 doctors in Kerala resigns over salary cut@imakerala @CMOKerala pic.twitter.com/1H1Wtm2Lds
— Dr. R.S. Meena Pahruaa (@drpahruaa) September 3, 2020
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