The resident doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) run Hindu Rao hospital has warned to go on an indefinite strike from Monday if the Corporation fails to pay their salaries pending for the last three months.
Doctors were also abstained from duty for three hours on Thursday morning to protest over the delay in payment of their salaries.
Around 450 resident doctors and interns of the hospital did not attend duties from 9.30 am to 12 noon, demanding payment of their salaries, a senior NMC official said.
The official said that arrangements were being made to release the salaries of the doctors. “We will release the salary soon,” he said.
“We will go on an indefinite strike from Monday, if the NDMC administration does not release our salaries,” Rahul Chaudhary, the president of Resident Welfare Association at the hospital said.
Chaudhary said the strike by the doctors was held to protest over delay in payment of salaries by the administration and it had nothing against the patients.