The Government may be applauding the role of frontline health workers by various gestures like the recent one by showering flower petals on them, but around 200 nurses at the Centre-run RML Hospital in Delhi are a disappointed lot.
Appointed in December last year, they are yet to get their salary which has left them at the receiving end as many of them are living in rented accommodations. Hailing from across the country, some of these nurses have been taking credit from their friends and relatives to pay their bills as they have not got salary for the last four months since joining the hospital. The Covid-19 induced lockdown has just added to their agony.
Some of them have been assigned duties at the Covid-19 wards as well. Though they have represented before the concerned authorities in this connection several times but except assurance their grievance has not been met.
A nurse on the condition of anonymity said that they have submitted all the required documents related to their job.
“We are doing our duty diligently. But in this lockdown time, it is difficult to sustain without money. Moreover, it is quite frustrating that while on the one hand the country is expressing solidarity with our efforts, on the other we are waiting for what is our rightful due,” she said