‘Collecting stipend from medicos should end’

HYDERABAD: The practice of private medical and dental colleges allegedly collecting stipends in advance from students and paying them back came to fore again after Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) and Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) submitted the representation to government officials to look into the issue. 

The associations’ representatives alleged that private medical and dental Colleges in Telangana are not paying stipend to the postgraduate students, as per regulations in ‘Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000’ of MCI.Citing a government order (G.O,MS.NO.35), members of the associations said that the colleges collect stipend every quarter in advance from students and pay it back to them in the form of stipends every month. HRDA and JUDA-Osmania Medical College unit termed this practise absurd and unfair.