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Docs from GMCs seek parity, implementation of MCI guidelines

Why higher stipend for SKIMS medicos?
9/29/2016 

Nitesh Sangral

Early Times Report

Jammu, Sept 29: Time and again the demand for restoring parity in the monthly honorarium for junior doctors working in Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) and Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura without results.
This disparity, said the medicos is not only taking toll of work but also the mindset of aspiring post graduates who prefer to work at SKIMS. It also becomes a deciding factor when students apply for MD/MS.
It may be recalled that medical students at GMC Jammu and GMC Srinagar have agitated the issue repeatedly. However, the disparity continues with the authorities in no mood to address the issue.
According to Medical Council of India's (MCI) clause 13.3 that the Post Graduate students of the institutions which are located in various States / Union Territories shall be paid remuneration at par with the remuneration being paid to the Post Graduate students of State Government medical institutions / Central Government Medical Institutions, in the State/Union Territory in which the institution is located.
"Similar procedure shall be followed in the matter of grant of leave to Post Graduate students, the order states but we don't know why the successive governments have not looked into this matter despite repeated memorandums and protests, said a medico on promised anonymity.
Some junior medicos told Early Times that the nature of training, financial involvement, duration of training and services rendered to the patients are same but there is huge disparity in stipend paid to doctors working in GMC in Jammu-Srinagar and SKIMS Srinagar. It is not only junior doctors who are suffering this disparity but the PGs too are facing the heat as PGs doctors at SKIMS are getting Rs 47000 per month but PGs in GMC are getting only Rs 20000 only.
"Now many of us are around 30 years old. Some are married and have families. Yet, we at times feel forced to be dependent on our parents for our daily expenses. The stipend being paid to us is not at all sufficient to meet our family expenditure, academic and research expenses. The government must consider our hard work and long working hours and hike our stipend," another student said.
Adding to this, another medico said, "PG's are the main workhouses in Medical Colleges and work for 100-120 hours a week. "The average of stipend being received by PG's across the country is around Rs.50, 000- 60,000 but in the GMC&H Jammu, they are getting meager Rs.22, 000 per month since past 7 years and that too in the time of such an inflation.
"A delegation of doctors recently had approached to the Principal with all required documents and Principal agreed and said the matter would be taken with higher officials, "they also said and adding that the same delegation also went to the Civil Secretariat and submitted their representation to the Minister and officials of the department concerned persons including concerned ministers but all in vain.
Aggrieved medicos further stated that the matter had also been taken up with Finance Minister and the Minister had assured to look into the matter but in reality the files have been moving one room to another within the same department for last few years.

"The PGs and junior doctors are running from pillar to post to remove disparity in one State but due to the lackadaisical approach of higher ups of H&ME department demoralizing the PGs students of GMCs and forced to them leave GMCs, "they stated.

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