The Association of Resident Doctors has demanded a job manual for the resident doctors due to the increasing work load on doctors. However, it has not been submitted by the administration till now. Dr. Uttam Thakur, senior resident, general surgery, mentioned that how sometimes, it is a 36 to 48 hour-long work journey for a PGIMER resident at a single stretch without any sleep.
He added, “It is only on a lean day that we are lucky to catch three hours of sleep. A resident’s duties in the ward, include dressing of surgical wounds of postoperative patients, filling up the chart on the bed ticket sheet, and monitoring the daily nutritional and drugs requirement of the patients” . He further stated that usually, OPD gets over by 4 pm and OT by 6. After this, they need to come back to ward and start assessing the progress of their patients while simultaneously preparing for evening teaching…
