The doctors alleged that they have been working for the ministry for over 10 years without having earned a single promotion, nor have they received much hike in their salaries, a media report said. First Secretary at the Indian embassy in Kuwait, V Mahajan said that they will take up the matter with the concerned authorities.

Recently, 14 Indian doctors, who quit their jobs at the Ministry of Health in March, had claimed that the ministry had refused to pay them their indemnities as their degrees have not been evaluated. The doctors claimed that the Ministry of Higher Education has stopped the practice of evaluation since 2002 after an Indian doctor's degree was found to be fraudulent. What has baffled many Indian medics is the fact that the said doctor was hired by Kuwait's Ministry of Health as a consultant from India some six years ago.