nashik around 200 doctors attached to the nashik civil hospital regional referral hospital and the rural hospitals treating covid and noncovid patients since the outbreak of the pandemic have been suffering because of the delay in the payment of their salaries a delegation of doctors affiliated to the maharashtra association of gazetted medical officers magmo group a presented a memorandum to p b gandal deputy director of the divisional health department to draw the attention of the government to the matter the doctors told gandal that while on the one hand they were being eulogized for treating covid19 patients by risking their lives on the other they were not being paid salaries on time while the monthly salary is expected in the first week of every month this time the salaries of the doctors have not been credited despite january almost coming to an end doctors said besides their basic expenditures they also have to pay their monthly instalments meanwhile in january and february a good portion of the salaries goes in taxes once the taxes are deducted the amount left inhand is not enough to meet the monthly expenditure while admitting about the delay in payment of salaries gandal said he has been following up the matter with officials of the concerned department and was hoping for the salaries of the doctors to be credited soon