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MUMBAI: Alleging BMC apathy, resident doctors from four hospitals, who have been at the frontline of Covid duty since March last year, launched a social media campaign on Friday. Around 3,000 resident doctors from KEM, Sion, Nair and Cooper hospitals are against the administration’s decision to adjust their stipend arrears against the money given for Covid duty.
Doctors have posted their pictures in PPE suits and aprons with a message #BMCBetrayedUs and #BetrayedStillWorking from Covid wards, testing centres and wherever they are posted in hospitals, on social media.
If their demands are not met, the resident doctors have threatened to go on hunger strike while on duty, said a statement issued by the BMC unit of Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors. While the doctors were getting Rs10,000 per month for Covid work from May last year, they are now told it was an advance towards the hike in stipends. The stipends were hiked in September and doctors were expecting arrears
Mumbai resident doctors start social media campaign over non-payment of arrears
Mumbai resident doctors start social media campaign over non-payment of arrears
Resident doctors in Mumbai have started a social media campaign over non-payment of stipend arrears. The campaign started after the BMC asked the doctors to adjust the incentive received for Covid-19 duty in 2020 against the due stipend.
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UPDATED: May 8, 2021 01:07 IST
The resident doctors have threatened to go on a hunger strike while continuing their Covid-19 duty if the dues are not paid to them.(Photo: Mustafa Shaikh)
Resident doctors from four civic hospitals on Covid-19 duty in Mumbai have started a social media campaign over non-payment of stipend arrears. The resident doctors have threatened to go on a hunger strike while continuing their Covid-19 duty if the dues are not paid to them.
BMC doctors protest on-duty seeking arrears of stipend
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Fri, May 7 2021 15:57 IST |
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BMC doctors protest on-duty seeking arrears of stipend. Image Source: IANS News
Mumbai, May 7 : Accusing the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of betrayal , hundreds of resident doctors have launched a protest on-duty demanding payment of arrears of their increased stipend announced last year, here on Friday.
The frontline medicos, working 24x7 for Covid-19 patients started a social media campaign and carried placards bearing slogans like BMC Betrayed Us , Betrayed, Still Working in various city hospitals.
The doctors from the BMC s Sion, KEM and Nair hospitals are taking part in the protests which started last week symbolically by wearing black badges on duty.
NEW DELHI: More than 500 medical staff have tested positive for coronavirus in the Indian state of Maharashtra, adding to the woes of the country, where most hospitals are already grappling with an acute shortage of health workers.
On Wednesday, the country registered more than 382,000 coronavirus cases and a record 3,700 deaths, of which the western state of Maharashtra accounted for 51,800 infections and almost 900 fatalities.
Last week, India accounted for almost half of coronavirus cases reported worldwide, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, as deaths in the south Asian nation surged during the past 24 hours.
Pune, one of Maharashtra’s main urban centers with a population of more than 3.5 million people, is the second-worst affected city in India, with almost 6,000 cases being reported each day. The city has recorded 880,545 infections and 9,770 deaths since the start of the pandemic last year.