new delhi : Nearly 180 interns of Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) practicing at Lok Nayak Hospital went on an indefinite strike on Thursday demanding revision of salary. Doctors claim that Central and the state government are doing nothing about the issue. Other medical colleges are likely to join the strike on Friday.
Doctors say that as per Government of India rules, salaries of interns has to be revised every two years but the government has not revised salaries for the past five years. “We are not getting our due share. In an RTI reply, we learnt that as per rules, the revision of salary has to be done in every two years and interns are entitled for 40% of total emoluments given to a junior resident,” said Dr Abhishek Bansal, representative of interns at MAMC and LN Hospital. (more…)