The Private Employed Doctors of Kerala, a new committee formed by private hospital doctors, have demanded a minimum salary of ₹1 lakh for MBBS doctors and ₹3 lakh for the specialist doctors. Doctors themselves know that they are underpaid even in the private hospitals and some are yet to get their salaries of the past 6 months. The IMA state secretary said that, “There is definitely a disparity in the payment and in some hospitals, they are underpaid. There is also inordinate delay in the payment of salaries to the doctors.
This was the reason why such a committee was formed by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), in which there are members and non-members of IMA.” Several doctors have stated that due to the shutting down of smaller hospitals and clinics, a severe job crisis is faced by them. As a result, these doctors are forced to enter the private hospitals and work there. But the…
