Management forcing us to quit, Seven Hills docs allege

Mumbai: Nearly 50 doctors from privately-run SevenHills Hospital in Marol, on Friday filed a complaint with MIDC police station about the management of the hospital pressuring its employees into resigning.

The hospital has not paid employees’ salaries for six months. These doctors are full-time consultants who have been demanding their salaries since July 2017. They have decided to go on an indefinite strike since December 28, 2017. As such, they have stopped admitting new patients and have refused to cater to patients in the OPD (out-patients department).

Only 50 junior doctors are now working to treat patients and senior medicos have said that they will only handle emergency cases. Dr Amrita Dhan told The Asian Age, “We have not been paid our salaries since six months and when we ask for them, we are being pressurised into resigning.”

Another doctor who did not wish to be named said, “We were called into a closed room by HR and everyone started pressurising us. All of them, mostly men, were speaking to me very rudely and forcing me to resign.”

DCP zone X Navinchandra Reddy said, “We have registered their complaint but no FIR has been lodged. We have called the hospital management and asked them to resolve the issue.  Employees have stated that they have been threatened and pressurised to leave.”

When we contacted Ashok Tiwari from the hospital management, he refused to comment on the issue.”