Trainee doctors of Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College and Hospital staged a dharna here on Wednesday, urging the hospital management to pay a monthly stipend of three months.
A total of 110 trainee doctors are serving in the hospital, who were paid an honorarium of ₹ 25,000 per month. But, he was not paid by the hospital management for the last three months. He said the hospital treats over 2,000 patients daily while over 1,000 are treated as in-patients. Since the hospital is a super-specialty and referral hospital, patients from Namakkal, Kallakurichi, Erode, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts arrive every day for treatment. “We continue to serve patients round the clock despite the COVID-19 threat”, he said and added that his representation to the management has not yielded any results so far.
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