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Amid the crisis over pending salaries of doctors of civic body-run hospitals in Delhi, many medics on Thursday expressed their anguish over the issue, saying they would bravely combat the pandemic situation and serve people but "Covid warriors can't march on an empty stomach".

Resident doctors of three North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC)-run hospitals are currently holding an agitating seeking release of their salaries due for the last three months. Also, an association of permanent doctors of civic-body run hospitals has warned of holding an indefinite strike from October 19 if their demands were not met.

Resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital were the first to come out in protest after "being sick of their voices not being heard when they agitated online".
"Are doctors superhumans? Do we not have material needs, ration to bring home, family to feed, loans to repay? Do authorities just expect us to keep working with no salaries, and for how long? They asked people to clang 'thalis' and showered flowers from above on us. I feel all those gestures, feel hollow to us right now," said Abhimanyu Sardana, president RDA of Hindu Rao Hospital.

Until a couple of days ago, the facility was a dedicated COVID-19 facility.
It was removed from the list of COVID-19 facilities because of the low average bed occupancy of the hospital and request received from the NDMC with immediate effect, according to a Delhi government order. The city government had on Saturday ordered shifting of COVID-19 patients from the civic-run hospital to its own facilities.

Delhi's coronavirus infection tally rose to 3.17 lakh with authorities reporting 3,324 new cases on Wednesday, while 44 fatalities took the number of deaths to 5,898. The number of active cases was 21,903 on Wednesday, of which 12,360 were under home isolation.

Sardana on Thursday announced that a joint protest has been planned at Jantar Mantar on Friday by resident doctors of 900-bed Hindu Rao Hospital, 450-bed Kasturba Hospital and Rajen Babu Tuberculosis Hospital, all three being British-era facilities.

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