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Mumbai: Resident’s docs at Mumbai’s authorities hospitals and civic hospitals of a number of different districts of the state went on a strike on January 2. The docs claimed that the federal government had not entertained lots of their calls for together with the creation of latest positions for senior residents, dearness allowance in accordance with the seventh Pay Commission, and cost of COVID-19 service arrears.

At first, the resident docs on the civic hospitals in Mumbai threatened to skip work January 2 onwards. Later, docs of the state’s government-run medical faculties in different districts additionally introduced that they might be absent from work from January 2.

In a letter to the authorities, the BMC MARD sought the implementation of a Government Resolution on dearness allowance at BMC hospitals together with clearance of arrears of dearness allowance from July 1, 2018.

The docs are combating to equalise their salaries throughout the state and recruit 1,432 extra senior resident docs. They have additionally requested that the federal government fill open affiliate and assistant professor positions as there’s a scarcity of educating employees.

The affiliation has additionally requested for equitable remuneration for all senior resident docs within the state. The BMC MARD claimed that it had repeatedly introduced up its calls for to the civic organisation and the state authorities, however they continue to be unaddressed until date.