new delhi the health staff of municipal corporation of delhi mcd has high hopes from this years budget as their salaries have been pending for the last four months the pending salaries of doctors and other staff is becoming a major problem now december is the fourth month when we have not received our salaries said a senior mcd official of the public health department a day after the mcd election result the corporation had presented its rs 15000crore budget for the year but did not make it public because of the model code of conduct we are hoping that after the budget is presented which will be the first for the unified corporation the issue of salaries of doctors and health staff will be resolved added the officer in february this year and in december 2021 doctors and health staff had gone on strike in north and east delhi respectively over the same issue the erstwhile north corporation has facilities like hindu rao kasturba hospital girdhari lal maternity hospital and rajan babu institute of pulmonary medicine and tuberculosis in addition there are 21 dispensaries 63 maternity and child welfare centres 17 polyclinics and seven maternity homes there are around 500 resident doctors many senior doctors and over 1000 health staff in all these facilities under north corporation which was the largest of the three corporations before reunification