By IANS
Raipur : Doctors at the government hospital here have submitted legal notices to government to resign in protest against pay disparity, official sources said Friday.
All 125 doctors of Dr. Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital have decided to resign in protest against the government’s recent proposal to recruit doctors for a new medical college at Jagdalpur in Bastar district at more than triple their salary.
“The government has received resignation notices en masse from state’s leading government hospital, all the 125 doctors of Dr. Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital have legally informed government to quit their jobs against government’s recent proposal to recruit doctors for a new medical college hospital at Jagdalpur, Bastar district, at more than triple salary of what the Raipur government hospital doctors are getting now,” health department sources told IANS.
The government has requested the doctors to resign as it will cripple the medical services overnight at the hospital where about on an average 850 patients mostly of poverty-hit families get treatment.
But the Medical Teachers Association, a banner of doctors who offered to resign, said that government has offered to pay at least Rs. 100,000 monthly salary plus several other facilities included free accommodation at Jagdalpur for the new doctors.
“Here experienced doctors’ monthly salary range between Rs. 20,000-30,000, it’s injustice and humiliating for doctors posted at Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital,’ R.K Singh, president of the Association, told the media Friday.
Health department officials have begun talks with the association to break deadlock.
The Bhimrao Ambedkar government hospital shot into fame globally May 29 this year as a team of doctors scripted a rare and successful chapter in the history of India’s medical sector when they detached a conjoined male twin who were attached at the stomach and shared a liver.