The BMC reduces the burden on resident doctors at its major hospitals by recruiting 188 senior resident doctors every 6 months. But this time, due to the intervention of the state Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), this recruitment has not been done, and will increase the workload on doctors. The contracts of senior resident doctors hired for the job will be over on July 31. Doctors claim that even after being apprised of this issue, the DMER is allegedly not taking steps to resolve it. Hence the BMC-MARD has warned of  mass bunking by around 1,500 resident doctors from August 1.

The need for hiring

There are three categories of resident doctors in the BMC’s Sion, Nair, KEM, and Cooper hospitals. In the first category, there are junior and senior resident doctors who have registered for post-graduation studies in civic medical colleges. In the second category, there are non-registered senior resident doctors who have done post-graduation, appointed by the BMC on contract basis. In the third category there are resident doctors who complete a government bond. BMC appoints resident doctors as per the second category to take care of patients in ICUs, Burns Wards, Trauma Units, EMS, and departments where doctors are overburdened.