MARD demands Govt to waive-off tuition fee during COVID woes
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Mumbai: The Resident Doctors in Maharashtra staged a protest in front of the Department of Medicine at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) demanding the Government to waive their tuition fee for PG medical courses.
The doctors pointed out that though they pursued post-graduation in different medical courses, they have to face severe academic loss as most of them remained busy serving COVID duties for the last one and a half years.
The residents stressed it as a high time that the state government should also take note of their perils and should provide them relief by waiving off the tuition fee for MS and MD courses which amounts to almost 1 Lakh per year.
The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) secretary Dr Abbasaheb Tidke told Medical Dialogues, " For the past one and a half years, the postgraduate medical course students (admitted to MD/MS course) and their guides are performing Covid-19 duties. We are not against the service but we are facing tremendous academic loss. Several doctors pursuing their PG courses were deprived of the chance to gain proper knowledge about different diseases as most of them remained preoccupied with COVID due to the pandemic."
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