The resident doctors of private medical colleges have demonstrated with the demand of getting the same subsistence allowance as the government. They demonstrated at Maitighar Mandal on Wednesday.
Private medical colleges are leaving aside government-like subsistence allowances for resident doctors. On the other hand, resident doctors who have been studying since before have also started protesting. They have demanded to implement the decision of the full meeting of the Medical Education Commission.
The government made a decision in the first week of January that private medical colleges should also give a monthly subsistence allowance of 48,000 to resident doctors. Accordingly, the Medical Education Commission issued a circular to the universities and institutes to implement the decision on giving subsistence allowance on January 26.
As private medical colleges were not ready to implement the decision regarding subsistence allowance, the commission started the process of student admission only in government medical colleges. Due to the subsistence allowance dispute, the operation of the new academic session of the postgraduate level of medical education (PG) has become uncertain.
