Vadodara: Resident doctors, who are the backbone in the fight against Covid-19, have started online campaign for stipend increment.
Around 300 resident doctors from across Gujarat have already signed the petition. According to the doctors, usually, the stipend is increased every three years. The petition states that even after they have completed three years, the the state government is not listening to them for this increment.
“Central government and even state government is decorating the bureaucrats by giving them medal of honour who even don’t know how we are managing Covid-19 pandemic,” the petition states.
“None of the resident doctors got any medal of honour from Gujarat government so far. Many of the resident doctors got ill, many didn’t visit their home for months, many got Covid-19, many lost their families by infecting them because of bad management of many institutes which did not provide them with an isolated hotel stay,” the petition signed by students of medical colleges of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot among others, states.
“But we, resident doctors have not complained about anything. Even after multiple extra hours duty, we did not complain. But this time we will not stay silent,” one of the petitioners said, adding that stipend increment is their right.