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Intern doctors submit memo to DGHS, continue strike 

A group of intern doctors and students from both government and private medical colleges submitted their demands to the Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday, calling for the use of the title ‘doctor’ to be reserved exclusive for those holding a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of  surgery (MBBS) degree and a bachelor of dental surgery (BDS) degree...

Interns’ strike antithetical to their professional obligation

PATIENTS suffer across the country as the intern doctors of public hospitals in divisional towns went on a work abstention programme on February 23, demanding that anyone without a bachelor of medicine, surgery, or dental surgery cannot be allowed to use the title ‘doctor’. Since healthcare services, particularly in the outpatient and emergency departments in the public...