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AIIMS doctors discuss their working conditions
Staff Reporter
| Decide to donate one day’s salary to the family of colleague |
NEW DELHI: Following the alleged suicide by Sunil Kumar of the Department of Neurosurgery at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences last Friday, the Institute’s Resident Doctors’ Association on Tuesday held a general body meeting to look into the working environment provided to the resident doctors at the hospital and also work at reducing incidence of such cases.
While the RDA decided that the residents would collect and donate one day’s salary to the family of Dr. Kumar, it has also come up with a ten-point charter of demands to ensure that doctors have a forum to address their problems.
Said RDA president Kumar Harsh: “Stress is a common factor that doctors have complained about at the Institute and added to that the long work hours and fear of failure in their examination is an additional strain. We have come up with a ten-point charter of demands that will ensure that doctors have a platform to air their grievances.”
The RDA also demanded that the report of the committee constituted to look into the death of Dr. Kumar be made public.
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