Maharashtra government will provide an incentive of Rs 1.21 lakh to each resident doctor involved in COVID duty.
The Maharashtra government has announced a special incentive of Rs 1.21 each for resident physicians treating COVID-19 patients in all government and municipal medical colleges in the state.
This good news comes days after a delegation of physicians associated with the Maharashtra Medical Resident Association (MARD) met with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to discuss some issues and present their demands.
On Friday, the state government issued an order on the matter. The MARD held an indefinite strike across the state on October 1 to seek compliance with various demands.
Dr. Akshay Yadav, a member of MARD, had told the media that his demands included the exemption of tuition fees during COVID-19 and the non-deduction of the TDS from the stipend of resident doctors of the hospitals of the Municipal Corporation of Brihanmumbai (BMC), among others. stuff.
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