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Shimla: Resident doctors, interns and PG doctors in all government medical and dental colleges of Himachal Pradesh will no longer be required to work for more than 12 hours. This includes on-call duty as well.
A notification has been issued by the state health secretary in this regard. An order for the provision of 12-hour duty was issued in Karnataka in March. Now the Himachal government has issued such orders.
The state directorate of medical education has issued instructions to all medical colleges and has sought a compliance report with the new duty roster within a week. These orders will benefit about 1800 PGs, interns, junior residents and senior residents.
Doctors and health workers of medical colleges in the state went on strike for 10 days. Such orders were issued two days after raising this matter and other demands in a meeting with Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu on Tuesday.
