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Interns on strike to increase stipend from Rs100 per day at Lata Mangeshkar Hosp

Aug 24, 2022, 04.56 AM IST

Nagpur: Over 140 intern doctors, who have completed MBBS and now work in full-time patient care at the city’s Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur (LMH) and NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, are getting Rs100 per day as stipend. Moreover, this stipend has also not been paid to them for at least two months. Irked by the negligence of college management, the intern doctors resorted to a strike from Monday.

“All we want is a respectable stipend,” said Ashutosh Ade, who leads the interns in this medical college. “We are not shouting slogans, nor creating obstacles in patient care. We just have withdrawn our services and staging a totally peaceful sit-in dharna,” he added.

Interns feel insulted that they get Rs3,000 per month as a stipend even after completing MBBS degree. “Even daily wage workers and unskilled labourer get more than this,” said Ade, adding that they have followed every necessary step of sending letters, reminders, and ultimatums to management.

“The dean and management are asking us to end the strike and discuss the issue. We want written assurance that our stipends will be revised,” said Sayali Chaudhari, an intern.

TOI spoke to dean Dr Kajal Mitra, who is on sick leave. He said the management committees decide stipends in private medical colleges. The striking interns told TOI that Dr Ashish Deshmukh, treasurer of LMH trust, visited them on Tuesday and appealed to them to withdraw the strike. But interns want some written assurance.

Internship of 12 months is compulsory after completion of MBBS from any medical college. Internship refers to a training program in which an MBBS graduate is able to learn methods and modalities to administer actual practice of medical and health care. However, the salary of an MBBS internship varies from college to college or hospital to hospital. In Maharashtra, GMC interns get Rs11,000 monthly stipend, in AIIMS they get Rs23,500. In private medical colleges, interns at PDMC in Amravati get Rs7,000 per month.

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Rs 100 for an MBBS intern is an insult: Intern doctors

Rs 100 for an MBBS intern is an insult: Intern doctors

written by TLN Team August 23, 2022

Firm in their demands to increase the stipend, the intern doctors of batch 2017 of Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Hingna, Nagpur, continue their strike on the second day.

The intern doctors alleged that the management is giving Rs 100 to MBBS interns which is less and is an insult.

Lata Mangeshkar Hospital which is attached to NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre is one of the most prestigious medical colleges in Maharashtra and yet pays one of the lowest amounts as a stipend given to interns across Maharashtra, said the interns of batch 2017.

We submitted multiple letters in the last 3 months to the management regarding an increment in our stipend from the current 3000/- to 11000/- as par with the stipend given in Government Medical Colleges in Maharashtra and free hostel accommodation for interns, for which we have not received any documented response yet,” said student’s representative Ashutosh Ade.

We have also demanded free accommodation in the hostel and have requested to waive off the hefty amount being charged as late fees, Ade added.

We are yet to get any written assurance from the management, Ade said.

We will continue to fight for our rights till our demands are not met, interns said.