Deployed To Manage Covid19, Intern Docs Seek Respectable Stipend
Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: The medical interns at the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar are demanding they be treated at par with other healthcare workers and have sought incentives that Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had announced for frontline health workers on May 3. These doctors are working at the forefront amidst the deadly virulent second wave of Coronavirus.
Lt Governor addressing the first batch of MBBS students of GMC Doda
Lowest on the ladder of delivering patient care, these greenhorns have been excluded from incentives despite working day and night during the pandemic and acting as a supplement to the healthcare workforce in dealing with the surging load of patients.
by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: Unlike last year, the resident doctors managed the frontline against Covid19 in GMC, Srinagar, have been deprived of an isolation facility where they used to live, far away from their families.