Acting on FPJ report dated 31 March 2022 edition titled “Cream for hired experts, crumbs for BMC doctors” the medical superintendent of Rajawadi Hospital, Ghatkopar issued circular (HO/RGH/A1 dated 5 April 2022) to all the DNB teaching staff and hired special consultants for compulsory biometric attendance.
Look how Maharashtra government is treating doctors who fought Covid
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Over 300 doctors in the state, including those feted by governor for exemplary work during the pandemic, have either not received their salaries for close to six months or are getting less than half of what they were paid earlier
While doctors across the world are being feted for their work in battling the Covid-19 pandemic, over 300 doctors across 18 medical colleges in Maharashtra have not been paid for months or have seen their salaries cut by more than 50 per cent.
A majority of these doctors were either promoted in 2017 at the medical colleges they were employed with, or plucked from smaller colleges in the state’s interiors and placed in bigger institutes in senior positions.