Doctors and para-medic staff, technicians working with the municipal hospitals have decided to join the strike called by the sanitation workers, teachers, engineers, contractors demanding immediate release of their salaries from today.
In a General Body Meeting held by Municipal Corporation Doctors’ Association on Friday, a decision to go for indefinite strike was taken. The strike will continue till the corporation releases their dues. It may be noted that around 1.5 lakh MCD employees are claiming that they have not been paid for the past few months
All the doctors’ municipal based dispensaries, maternity home, polyclinic and its four major hospitals which include Bara Hindu Rao, Swami Dayanand, Kasturba and Rajan Babu Tuberculosis hospital will halt their medical services. The agitated doctors are of the view that government should stop indulging in the blame game a common man suffered the most.
On Thursday OPDs services of all the municipal hospitals were halted till 12noon OPDs, however, patients who visited hospitals said that even after 12 noon, no medical services were available.
A senior doctor at Hindu Rao Hospital said: “From Saturday onwards, no medical services will be provided to the patients. Those who are admitted in the hospital and are in stable condition will be discharged. No new cases will be taken up now. Even emergency services will also be limited.”
Corporation on Thursday released the salaries of class III and IV employees, not for the doctors, said a senior doctor of a municipal hospital.