The government will set up a committee under the Secretary, Medical Education, to study the workplace and work-related issues raised by house surgeons and postgraduate medical students. The committee will submit its report within a month, Health Minister Veena George said here on Friday.
Ms. George announced this after holding talks with the house surgeons and PG medicos, who had refused to call off their strike on Thursday demanding that the Health Minister give them a patient hearing and that they needed more than mere promises about their workplace.
The Minister also promised to bring out a Standard Operating Procedure for the posting of young doctors in public hospitals as part of the medical residency programme.
