Medical council of India to look into Harassment of Junior Residents at Medical Colleges

Putting forward their demands, it representation demanded

1. An immediate stop to the humiliation, discrimination against the junior doctors.


2. All junior doctors should be assigned proper and time-bound duties in order to improve patient care.


3. Provide them with proper offs, as currently they are treated like kept like prisoners during their one year of junior residency


4. Never to make them do house-works of the seniors


5. Give them work as per proper duty hours so that they can get rest and have some personal life

The representation further appealed that while the members of the council owing to their senior positions may not be aware of the plight and experiences of the junior resident doctors across various medical colleges in the country, the council should come forward in providing solutions to these problems faced by the doctors

Considering the matter of the junior doctors,  the Executive Committee of the Council decided to place the matter before the Academic Committee of the Council for consideration and submit its report within 03 months.

Numerous instances of harassment of junior doctors have been reported recently. Some of the junior doctors have even taken extreme steps unable to bear the pressures. Last week, a PG Pediatrics student who had alleged sexual harassment against her professors at SV Medical College committed suicide after no action was taken on her complaint. She was also upset after she failed in the post-graduate exams.

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