CHANDIGARH: As incentive for doctors who are working as interns at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, the UT administration has finally decided to double their monthly stipend from Rs 9,000 to Rs 18,000. The decision came after some students from the medical college had taken to social media.
The same was noticed by the Union minister of food processing industries, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who took to social media and requested the Punjab chief minister to raise the stipend of medical interns.
She mentioned in her Tweet, “I request Punjab CM to intervene immediately and raise stipend of medical interns of Punjab government medical colleges who are getting Rs 300 per day on a par with daily wagers as per the central pattern, besides giving them insurance cover and absorbing them in the health department to combat Covid-19.”
UT advisor Manoj Parida said, “It was decided in our war room meeting today that we will raise the stipend from April 1 onwards. These are students who are helping us fight against coronavirus.”
There are around 600 such interns in all the medical colleges of Punjab and Chandigarh. “We are posted in all wards and are the first point of care for patients. This is certainly a part of our training. But the stipend is not even on a par with those in AIIMS,” said Dr Sandeep, who raised the issue in GMCH-32.
He said, “In AIIMS, our colleagues are paid Rs 23,500 as stipend. Our fee has increased in the last 5 years, but in the past 11 years, our stipend is the same.”
Internship is compulsory after 4.5 years of MBBS. “We work for 12 hours a day and we are paid Rs 300 per day which is less than an unskilled worker. Our last stipend was revised in 2009 from Rs 4,500 to Rs 9000,” said another intern.
The same was noticed by the Union minister of food processing industries, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who took to social media and requested the Punjab chief minister to raise the stipend of medical interns.
She mentioned in her Tweet, “I request Punjab CM to intervene immediately and raise stipend of medical interns of Punjab government medical colleges who are getting Rs 300 per day on a par with daily wagers as per the central pattern, besides giving them insurance cover and absorbing them in the health department to combat Covid-19.”
UT advisor Manoj Parida said, “It was decided in our war room meeting today that we will raise the stipend from April 1 onwards. These are students who are helping us fight against coronavirus.”
There are around 600 such interns in all the medical colleges of Punjab and Chandigarh. “We are posted in all wards and are the first point of care for patients. This is certainly a part of our training. But the stipend is not even on a par with those in AIIMS,” said Dr Sandeep, who raised the issue in GMCH-32.
He said, “In AIIMS, our colleagues are paid Rs 23,500 as stipend. Our fee has increased in the last 5 years, but in the past 11 years, our stipend is the same.”
Internship is compulsory after 4.5 years of MBBS. “We work for 12 hours a day and we are paid Rs 300 per day which is less than an unskilled worker. Our last stipend was revised in 2009 from Rs 4,500 to Rs 9000,” said another intern.
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