NDMC Pays Salaries To Hindu Rao Hospital Staff; Doctors Withdraw Strike

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) on October 28 paid the doctors and health-workers of the Hindu Rao hospital, their long-due salaries. The staff, who were protesting for about a month, had resorted to an indefinite hunger strike from October 23 that was taken back after the salaries were paid. NDMC Mayor Jai Prakash said he had responded to the hospital-staff and urged everyone to work responsibly "amid COVID-19 crisis".