North Delhi Municipal Corporation doctors to go on indefinite strike

However, the emergency services will not be affected. The Secretary of Municipal Corporation Doctors' Association Dr Maruti Sinha told Medical Dialogues, " it was decided in a general body meeting that senior doctors would stop their work to raise voice over to highlight the issue of timely disbursement of all salaries, arrears and revision of DA."

" Almost 1,000 senior doctors across all NDMC hospitals those under the north civic body will go on strike. We have previously written letters to authorities including the PM and we waited for a permanent solution but in vain. Hence, now we will start our protest and we will be on strike until our demands are fulfilled," she added.

In the letter written to PM, the association stated, " Senior service Doctors of MCD have to repeatedly protest for payment of their salaries despite it being their legitimate right, which has not been paid to them for the past two months. North MCD is neither able to manage funds for salary payments to its Health workers nor it is willing to hand over the Health Services to Central Government or State Government as advised by Hon'ble High Court, Delhi. Furthermore, it appears as if all higher authorities/ Institutions of this country are more helpless than us in ensuring timely payment of salaries to doctors & other healthcare workers."

Meanwhile, resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital and Kasturba Hospital of Delhi have demanded timely payment of the dues and pending Dearness Allowance (DA's). While the doctors of Hindu Rao hospital went on an indefinite hunger strike starting from 22nd November, the doctors of Kasturba Hospital have confirmed that they will also boycott services from 26th November.