JNIMS 'doctors' cease emergency services
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 26 2025:
Intensifying their strike against sudden hike of fee structure, resident doctors of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIM) have stopped routine services including attending patients in the emergency ward from Monday onwards.
Resident doctors of JNIMS have been demanding reduction of fee structure for PG courses, which has been hiked from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 3 lakh.
According to a statement of JNIMS Resident Doctors' Association, the institute charged Rs 1 lakh as fee for three years Post Graduate (PG) courses but fee structure for the 2022 October batch was hiked suddenly from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 3 lakh.
It said that repeated appeals to JNIMS authority for reduction of the fee remain unheard thereby prompting resident doctors to start suspending routine service for five days from May 21."Even after the lapse of five days, there has been no positive response from the authority and accordingly an emergency general body meeting of the association decided to boycott emergency services from 9am Monday.
However, resident doctors will skip the strike and help people in case of casualties in the ongoing agitation," assured the doctors on strike.