Staff of Season’s Hospital in Bagh Amberpet, Hyderabad, staged a cooking protest outside the facility on Thursday, demanding payment of salaries they say have been pending for months.

The protest took place at the hospital in Vaibhav Nagar, Bagh Amberpet. Employees set up a cooking demonstration in front of the building to draw attention to their unpaid wages. The report was filed on November 5, 2026, from Amberpet.

Four months without pay, and a hospital that has been shut for two months

The numbers the staff laid out are stark. More than 50 employees have not received four months of wages. Taken together, the outstanding amount comes to roughly Rs 60 lakh.

The workers also said the hospital has been closed for the past two months. The closure, in their account, came after a long run of unpaid wages rather than as a separate problem. That sequence is what turned a payroll dispute into a standoff that employees now describe as a crisis.

Staff say the trouble predates the closure. According to the employees, they held several protests before the hospital shut its doors, and the money still did not arrive. For people who have gone months without a paycheck, each failed attempt to press management wears down whatever patience they had left.

A promise that was never kept

Staff pointed to a specific commitment. Dr. Devender Reddy, they said, promised that the pending salaries would be paid within a month. That month has passed, and the staff say nothing has changed.

That gap between promise and payment sits at the center of the anger. Employees are not asking for a favour or a bonus. They are asking for wages they say they already earned, and they say they were told when to expect them.

Frustration led them to a more visible form of protest. Staff described their decision in plain terms, and it reflects how far they felt pushed.

"In a state of helplessness, we have taken up this protest by cooking here," the staff said, in a translation of their reported remarks.

The image of workers cooking meals on the pavement outside a shuttered hospital is hard to ignore. It shows employees who feel they have run out of formal channels and have turned to the street to be heard.

Why this matters for Hyderabad and Telangana

This is a Hyderabad story, and it lands squarely in Telangana’s largest city. Bagh Amberpet is a dense residential area, and a hospital that has been shut for two months affects more than the staff on its payroll. Any facility that goes dark in a neighbourhood leaves local patients with fewer options, and the report does not say where those patients have been sent or how the closure has affected them.

The episode also raises questions about how private healthcare workers in the state are protected when a facility stops paying. The report does not say whether any labour authority has been approached. What it does show is that the workers feel they have no reliable route to recovering the money they are owed.

What the staff are demanding

The demand is simple. The employees want their pending wages paid immediately. They have not asked for anything beyond the money they say is already due to them.

Their protest has been loud and deliberate. It has put Season’s Hospital’s unpaid wages in front of anyone walking or driving past Vaibhav Nagar. Whether that pressure produces payment is the question the workers are now waiting to see answered.

What we still don’t know

The report relies on the staff’s account. It does not include a response from hospital management or from Dr. Devender Reddy. It does not confirm the exact breakdown of how the Rs 60 lakh is owed to each employee, or whether the figure includes other dues beyond salaries.

Those gaps matter. Readers should treat the figures as the workers’ own claims until management or other official sources respond. Still, the core facts are clear: staff say they have gone four months without pay, a promised payment deadline has passed, and they chose to take their grievance onto the street with a cooking protest in front of the hospital.