Being paid salary debt, why do employees of Tue Tinh Hospital still want to “go down the street”?

Salary is paid but still “blind” about the future

The Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy has continued to advance funds to Tue Tinh Hospital to pay the outstanding salaries of nearly 150 officials and employees at this medical facility in February and March. .

Talking to Dan Tri, Ms. Le Thanh Binh, Head of the Trade Union Group, Tue Tinh Hospital, said that the officers and employees have received the owed salary since the evening of March 23. However, according to Ms. Binh, the staff still intend to continue to “go down the street” to ask for help because the problem has not been completely resolved.

Ms. Binh shared: “This time “going down the street” is not only because of asking for a salary but also wanting a specific and clear solution to the problem at Tue Tinh Hospital. We need to know the future of the officers and employees. It’s impossible that every month we have to take to the streets to demand our own legitimate salary.”

“Regarding our future, the leadership always promises to solve it and will solve it, but when it is finished, there is no time limit,” Binh said.

She also added that, after “going down the street” to claim benefits before Tet, the staff of Tue Tinh Hospital did not think they would have to do this again.

Struggling life, borrowing everywhere because of prolonged salary debt

According to research, the prolonged salary debt has caused many officials and employees at Tue Tinh Hospital to face great economic difficulties. Many people have to borrow, work part-time to have enough money to cover their lives in the past time.

Ms. Le Thanh Binh shared: “After Tet, commodity prices escalated and we were owed 100% of our salary instead of 50% of our salary as before, so life was already difficult.”

According to Ms. Binh, there is a danger that everyone’s working spirit has disappeared. Many officials have applied for leave without pay, and in some cases, their contracts have expired and are also temporarily suspending work.

For Ms. Nguyen Thi Hang – Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Aging, Tue Tinh Hospital, the whole family of 4 in the past time has had to rely entirely on her husband’s unstable salary.

“I have absolutely no income, my husband is currently “shackled” to bear all the family’s expenses while he is also a self-employed worker. Every month we have to pay a bank loan to buy one. house, money to take care of 2 children, so our life is very difficult”, Hang said

Nurse Nguyen Thi Uyen shared that, after work, everyone “goes down the street” in a tired and depressed mood.

“At that time, everyone could return to their families, but we had to linger to go down the street. It was a reluctance to go on the street. For two months without a salary, I had to borrow money from both sides of my family to pay for my life. Everyone asked.” owe salary?” I’m really tired, I don’t know when the hospital will be able to completely solve this problem”, said Ms. Uyen.

Previously, in two consecutive days from March 22 to 23, more than 60 officers and employees of Tue Tinh Hospital lined up in front of the gate of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy from 16:30. People holding paper, people holding banners with slogans claiming rights.

According to research, the hospital’s staff and staff “went to the street” because they were so angry that in February and March, they were owed 100% of their salary.

In mid-January of this year, more than 40 medical staff of Tue Tinh Hospital took to the streets for many days to “beg for help” because they had been “begged” for more than 8 months.

According to the doctors and nurses, since 2019, these employees have had their benefits reduced, only the basic salary. Not stopping there, from May to November 2021, this income of just under 6 million dong will be cut by another 50%.