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The Telangana Senior Residents Doctors Association (T-SRDA) has flagged the mandatory postulation of a ₹15,000 rejoining interest from pistillate postgraduate doctors who avail maternity leave, calling it unjustified and symptomatic of deeper systemic gaps successful however maternity permission is handled crossed authorities aesculapian colleges successful the State.
In a statement, the relation said that pistillate postgraduates are required to wage the interest aft completing the mandatory three-month maternity permission successful bid to rejoin their courses. “Even aft paying the amount, students are required to hold for an further 15 to 20 days to get assemblage permission, thereby being denied entree to departmental facilities,” the connection said.
The relation pointed to the lack of azygous and intelligibly communicated maternity permission guidelines arsenic a halfway problem. It said determination are nary modular protocols issued by Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), resulting successful inconsistent practices crossed colleges and repeated disorder for students returning aft childbirth.
Postgraduate doctors bash not person stipends during the hold play pursuing maternity leave. Even aft the hold is completed, stipends are reportedly delayed by 4 to 5 months, causing terrible fiscal strain and affecting maternal and kid wellness astatine a captious stage, the doctors claimed.
The practice besides raised concerns implicit restrictions imposed during the hold period. “Female postgraduate doctors are not permitted to instrumentality casual permission during this time, adjacent successful cases of aesculapian emergencies oregon kid wellness issues, contempt having eligible permission balances,” they added.
T-SRDA has demanded contiguous waiver of the ₹15,000 rejoining fee, on with the formulation and dissemination of wide maternity permission and rejoining guidelines applicable to each aesculapian colleges.
