Bir Hospital Mandates Leave for Resident Doctors After 24-Hour Duty
Kathmandu. Bir Hospital has issued a circular mandating that resident doctors who have completed 24 hours of continuous duty be given mandatory leave after the morning ward round.
Bir Hospital issued a circular today mandating that resident (doctors) be given mandatory leave after the morning ward round.
Trainee doctors (interns and resident doctors) are agitating, demanding that their duty hours should not exceed a maximum of 12 hours per day and 72 hours per week as per Nepal's Labor Act, 2074, with a provision for one mandatory day off per week.
Their demand is that if they are made to work more than 48 hours a week, they should be provided with overtime allowance as per the Labor Act.
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