Day after resident doctors threatened to go on an indefinite strike; various Delhi Government Hospitals on Wednesday accepted their demands to revise the remuneration according to 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC).
Dr Sumedh Sandhanshiv, president of Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) “7th CPC has been implemented in Delhi Government Hospitals and the salaries of the resident doctors will be upgraded accordingly.
“Regarding Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, we are calling off the strike conditionally on assurance of implementation of 7th CPC within 15 days,” said The strike has been officially called off, he added.
Earlier in the day, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, GB Pant Hospital, Lok Nayak Hospital and Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital had released orders revising the stipend payable to medical trainees according to 7th CPC retrospectively from January 2016 resulting in ending of the strike at these hospitals.
As per the orders given by the hospitals, revision in the stipends payable to Post Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Diplomate of National Board (DNB) students and Post Diploma DNB students was made according to 7th CPC.
On Tuesday, resident doctors at Maulana Azad Hospital, University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS), Sanjay Gandhi, GB Pant, Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital and Baba Sahib Ambedkar Hospital had decided not to indulge in the OPD services, ward duties and elective surgeries from Wednesday onwards.
Subsequently, a meeting was held between Delhi Health Secretary and FORDA representatives.
In the meeting directions to solve the matter in the institutes itself were given to MDs of the Hospitals respectively.
The resident doctors are demanding timely payment of salaries and increments as per 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC).