After getting the salaries till January, the agitating municipal doctors have decided to call off indefinite strike with immediate effect from Saturday. For the past ten days, over 50,000 MCD employees working for the corporation’s health sector including doctors and para-medical staff, technicians were on indefinite strike demanding immediate release of their salaries from the Government.
On Friday, the senior medical officials from municipal hospitals held a meeting with Deputy Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minster Satyendra Jain following which, they decided to call off the indefinite strike.
Speaking with The Pioneer, Dr RR Gautam president of municipal corporation Doctors’ Association said, “Deputy Minister has assured official work for taking over municipal hospitals under the Delhi Government has started and doctors have got the salaries till January. Within a day or a two, salary till March will also come.”
“Not only this, Sisodia has also assured that strike like situation will not come in future,” informed Dr Gautam .
All the doctors of municipal-based dispensaries, maternity home, polyclinic and its major hospitals, which include Bara Hindu Rao, Swami Dayanand, Kasturba and Rajan Babu Tuberculosis hospital had halted their medical services for the past ten days. Only critical emergency services were taken up during the strike period and other regular cases were sent back, due to which Delhi Government hospitals were over crowed with patients.
“We don’t want patients to suffer anymore now. Therefore, we have decided to withdraw strike from Saturday morning,” said Dr Gautam,
Around 1.5 lakh municipal employees, including doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, technicians, sanitation workers and other class III and IV staff, who have not been paid salaries for up to three months, are on indefinite strike demanding for the release of their salaries.