Senior resident doctors in West Bengal will now earn Rs 15,000 more across all levels. The new pay structure, aimed at the well-being of the medical community in the state, will see senior resident doctors with diplomas earning Rs 80,000 per month, compared to the Rs 65,000 they used to earn earlier.
Post-graduate senior resident doctors will earn Rs 85,000, while earlier they were getting only Rs 70,000. Post-doctoral senior doctors who were earning Rs 75,000 per month will now earn Rs 1 lakh per month.
That is not all; house staff, interns, postgraduate trainees as well as postdoctoral trainees will also get a salary hike of Rs 10,000.
These increments, according to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, will provide better financial support to the medical professionals in the state.
While addressing doctors and medical students at a meeting recently, Banerjee demanded that the accused in the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder should be given strict punishment. The incident was followed by months of protests by doctors of the medical college and hospital in Kolkata.
The chief minister also withdrew the suspension of seven junior doctors of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) which was announced when a newborn had died from poisonus saline.
