Mohalla Clinics have not been paid salaries yet...
On Thursday, The Bhartiya Janta Party said, basic diagnostic test are not done at the Delhi government-run Mohalla clinics for last two months as the government has not paid the diagnostic labs. The BJP also alleged that doctors have not been paid salaries for three months and due to which more than 70 Mohalla clinics have been closed.
The order had come after the Delhi government announced that 450 diagnostic test will be held free of cost at government-run medical establishments.
Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva said, “The Delhi government is once again misleading people by announcing that from next year 450 diagnostic tests will be done free of cost in Delhi government-run medical facilities. Currently 212 tests are done free of cost in Mohalla clinics. But as per our information, no tests are being done at the Mohalla clinics for the past two months, as the government has not paid the labs that have been outsourced the work. When they are not able to do 212 tests, how will they do 45o tests?”
The AAP did not comment on the matter yet.
The BJP also said that doctors and staff deployed at Mohalla Clinics have not been paid salaries from August and more than 70 Mohalla clinics that have closed down.
Bidhuri further added, “It is shocking that employees at Mohalla clinics are paying office expenses from their own pocket. The doctors have to spend on cleaning, ?700 for Wi-Fi, drinking water, stationery, and other office expenses per month from their own pocket and the government pays them later.”
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