HYDERABAD, Jan 28: About 700 house-job doctors of the Liaquat Medical University Hospital have not received the difference of their over one and a half month salary although the hospital authorities have received the amount.

A group of house-job doctors told Dawn on Monday their monthly salary was increased from Rs3,880 to Rs6,210 from Nov 16, 2002.

They said house-job doctors of the Chandika Medical College had been paid the difference but doctors of the Liaquat Medical University Hospital were being told that one-third of their amount would be deducted as “Doctors-Patients Welfare Fund”. They said this fund had no legal backing.

They said a form had been distributing among doctors, showing they had voluntarily provided one-third of their amount for the fund.—Bureau