Junior doctors go on indefinite strike in Bihar
Patna: The junior doctors of nine government-run medical colleges and hospitals in Bihar boycotted work from Monday demanding a raise in stipend. Hundreds of junior doctors in the state went on strike to highlight their five-point demands.
Due to the agitation, patients are at the receiving end as they await their turn in long queues at the medical colleges of the state, reports IANS.
The president Dr. Kundan Suman of the junior doctors association pointed out that their other demands included recruitment of additional doctors in medical colleges and hospitals, and and appointment of non- academic junior resident doctors by the state government. The protesting doctors also demanded a withdrawal of the provision to work for a year in medical colleges for post-graduate doctors.
The junior doctors at PMCH and Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH), Patna, Darbhanga Medical College Hospital, Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital in Muzaffarpur, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital in Bhagalpur, the Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College in Gaya all joined hands and staged protests in their respective institutions and hospitals.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the interns were demanding a raise in their monthly stipend from Rs 15,000 to Rs 35,000, claiming that their stipend is the lowest in India.
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