The Tripura Well being Division on Wednesday has assured the protesting intern docs at IGM hospital that it’s going to pay stipends to them frequently. The interns on the hospital had claimed that they haven’t acquired stipends for the previous 5 months and they’re going through monetary difficulties.
The latest protest by greater than 20 docs got here as a humiliation to the BJP-led State authorities.
“There would be immediate disbursement of stipends to the interns. We will make sure they and those working in other hospitals get stipends regularly,” mentioned a Well being Division official.
He mentioned officers from the division has met with a delegation of the interns to type out the problems.
In the meantime, the division has introduced that it’s going to recruit 226 docs and one other 100 nursing and medical staffers. It mentioned that the method of recruitment had already began and the employment would ease employees disaster in rural well being care services.