Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 9: A medicos’ body of Kashmir today slammed Government for not releasing the withheld salaries of National Health Mission (NHM) doctors.
The Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK)in a statement said a meeting of the body in which NHM doctors also participated was held chaired by Dr GM Mir, the DAK president, in which various issues pertained to NHM doctors were discussed thread bare.
“It has been 8 months now that Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) employees of NHM have been left in the lurch as they have not been paid their salaries for the past eight months. Various other NHM doctors working in peripheral hospitals under different sub head programmes across valley including other NHM employees are without wages since three months,” the DAK said.
DAK said: “NHM doctors are working with dedication, zeal and zest but in return to their work they have been rewarded with delay in salaries by the Govt. thereby discouraging their morale to the lowest ebb. It is inhuman and against all national and international labour laws to make NHM employees work like bonded labourers without timely grant of salaries.”
The DAK condemned the National Health Mission and Government for not releasing salaries on time. It further said that the festival of Eid is approaching but if the salaries of NHM doctors are not released then they would have no means to celebrate it.
DAK stressed the Govt. and health authorities to intervene and resolve this matter expeditiously at the earliest and also demanded the regularization of NHM medicos.
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