Covid-dedicated hospital’s staff protest over salary in Noida

Around 47 housekeeping and security staff at the dedicated Covid -19 hospital in Noida sector 39, protested on Tuesday demanding pay for the last four months

Around 47 housekeeping and security staff at the dedicated Covid -19 hospital in Noida sector 39, protested on Tuesday demanding pay for the last four months.

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The Gautam Budh Nagar health department said they could not pay the employees as they were yet to receive funds from the state government.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath had inaugurated the 400-bedded hospital on August 8 last year.

Rakesh Singh, one of the agitators, said they had not been paid since November.

“We’ve been hired by a private agency that bagged tenders for housekeeping and security arrangements in this hospital. The agency officials say that since the hospital administration has not cleared its outstanding dues, the company is unable to make our payments,” he said.

“The matter has been intimated to the higher officials in the headquarters. We will soon get the allotment of this head and agency’s all outstanding dues will be cleared in two or three days,” said Gautam Budh Nagar district chief medical officer (CMO), Dr Deeoak Ohri

District magistrate Suhas LY said, “We are making arrangements to get the funds immediately released from the headquarters. The staffers will get their salary soon.”

“The outstanding dues towards the hospital has now gone over ₹50 lakh. After getting the payments from the hospital, we’ll release the salary dues of our employees next day,” he said.