Srinagar, Sep 8: Medical interns throughout Jammu and Kashmir have agreed to name off their strike after a gathering with Well being and Medical Schooling Minister Sakeena (Masood) Itoo, with the federal government assuring that the long-pending demand for enhancement of their month-to-month stipend will probably be resolved inside 30 days.
In keeping with an official document be aware issued by the Private Part of the Minister, a delegation of medical interns, representing varied medical schools of J&Okay, met the Minister on September 4 and September 9 to press for a revision of their stipend construction.
The delegation was additionally attended by the Principal of Authorities Medical Faculty, Srinagar, and the Deputy Director Planning, representing the Director Well being Companies, Kashmir.
Throughout the assembly, the delegation apprised the Minister of the prevailing stipend construction and argued for an acceptable revision, citing the character of their duties, workload and tasks throughout the healthcare system.
The Minister, chairing the assembly, gave the delegation a affected person listening to and acknowledged that their issues “deserve due consideration,” the be aware states. She additional assured them that the federal government has remained conscious of points regarding medical interns and delicate to their professional issues.
The Minister knowledgeable the delegation that the matter was already beneath the federal government’s consideration and {that a} committee had been constituted to look at the difficulty comprehensively. She mentioned the structure of the committee mirrored the seriousness with which the federal government was addressing the matter and its intent to reach at a thought-about and acceptable determination.
The be aware refers back to the Stipend Enhancement Committee constituted vide Authorities Order No. 538-JK(HME) of 2023, dated June 27, 2023.
It was noticed in the course of the assembly that the matter wanted to be delivered to a logical conclusion “expeditiously and with out avoidable delay,” in order that the interns’ educational {and professional} tasks should not adversely affected and hospital companies and affected person care proceed uninterrupted.
Following detailed deliberations, it was determined that the matter shall be finalised inside a interval of 30 days, on the idea of the suggestions of the Stipend Enhancement Committee and holding in view the professional pursuits and issues of the medical interns.
Strike known as off
In view of the assurances given, the medical interns agreed to name off their strike forthwith, within the bigger curiosity of affected person care and to safeguard their very own educational {and professional} pursuits, the document be aware states.
The proceedings had been recorded and signed by Peerzada Zahoor Ahmad, JKAS, Officer on Particular Obligation to the Minister for Well being & Medical Schooling, College Schooling, Larger Schooling, and Social Welfare Division, J&Okay, and dated September 8, 2026.
