NEET PG Counselling: Resident Doctors Urge Delhi Govt To Take ‘Necessary Measures’ Over Pay Cuts Of Agitators

In the letter, FORDA said the protesting doctors were assured that alomg with expaditing the counselling and admission process, "no punitive or disciplinary action will be taken by the authorities" against any resident doctor who participted in the protest that initially had started from 27 November.

New Delhi: Urging the Delhi government to look into the matter of salary cuts of doctors who participated in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Postgraduate) –NEET-PG– counselling protests, the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Minister Satyender Jain and asked him to take necessary measures for addressing the issue at the earliest.

Requesting Hon’ble @SatyendarJain Sir to take note of punitive action taken against #ResidentDoctors of certain Delhi Government Hospital, namely #GTBHospital, who took part in the nationwide agitation to #ExpediteNEETPGCounselling2021 @ArvindKejriwal @dr_arunkgupta @ANI @ndtv pic.twitter.com/k1LItdYwKn

— FORDA INDIA (@FordaIndia) February 22, 2022

Protesting residents had called off the agitation on 31 December following a meeting with the Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya. In the letter, FORDA said the protesting doctors were assured that along with expediting the counselling and admission process, “no punitive or disciplinary action will be taken by the authorities” against any resident doctor who participated in the protest that initially had started from 27 November.

“However, it is extremely unfortunate that Resident Doctors of certain Delhi Government Hospital, notably, University College Of Medical Sciences (UCMS) and GTB Hospital, have been marked Absent during the afore-mentioned period of agitation and their salaries/stipends have been deducted,” FORDA said in the letter.

“We would hereby request you to kindly take note of the issue mentioned above and take necessary measures for addressing the same at the earliest,” it added.