Doctors suffering from TB not getting leave

Two more KEM Hospital doctors suffering from TB have been denied the required 70-day respite that was promised by the state government last year despite their leave having been sanctioned. The reason behind this is a manpower crunch, a senior hospital authority said.

One of the resident doctors on Saturday shot off a complaint in this regard to the civic authorities that run the hospital.

In July, a resident doctor at KEM Hospital had contracted TB at work, but the hospital refused to grant him the mandatory 70 days of paid leave.

Dr Avinash Supe, dean of KEM Hospital told The Asian Age, “We are giving them all the treatment necessary, and we have given them leave too, but we have not received the circular. We do grant leave, but they are not paid.”

Meanwhile the Dr Sagar Mundada, president of MARD, said, “A TB patient requires a lot of time to recover fully, but the government has failed to take cognisance of this important matter.”