Toxic PGIMER pretending well on residents’ welfare hindustantimes.com/cities/ch… PGIMER Chandigarh is set to institutionalise regular dialogue with its residents, with the institute's Director Vivek Lal calling for periodic interactions to ensure concerns related to workload, stress, and workplace well-being are addressed. What is the use of such useless meetings? Just to get tea, a few biscuits and a photo op? PGIMER did nothing to regulate duty hours so far despite Hindustan Times exposure last year Also PGIMER has been consistently refusing to provide information on the number of students who quit and that took psychiatric counselling. It shows here is a lot to hide Instead of conducting such useless meetings it is high time for PGIMER to implement URS 1992 duty hour guidelines strictly and prepare duty roster based on 48 hours work week and a mandatory week off Let PGIMER initiate strict disciplinary action on HoD that do not maintain duty hour data or squeeze residents 24-36 hours cruelly Let first PGIMER stop using residents as just blood sampler for the entire first year Let PGIMER stop preaching and start teaching theory subjects to PGI residents instead of crushing in an illegitimate and inhumane manner under unbearable workload Let PGI define role and responsibilities of resident doctors to ensure they are not used as multi-purpose health worker Meetings never solve sufferings of resident doctors but a will to act I can say with full confidence that working conditions of PGIMER resident will never change for coming 20 yaers also under current management that loves to exploit the residents using degree, internla marks and thesis as blackmailing weapons @pgichd