HC Directs Hospital To Pay Enhanced Honorarium To Trainee Doctors

HC Directs Hospital To Pay Enhanced Honorarium To Trainee Doctors Dated: 18 Feb 2009 Source: UNI Text: DELHI: The Delhi High Court rejected the plea of Capital's Sunder Lal Jain hospital that it being a private hospital cannot be compelled to follow the rules of the National Board of Examination(NBE) to enhance the stipend of its trainee doctors and directed the hospital to pay the balance amount to the doctors within eight weeks. Justice S Ravindra Bhat directed the hospital yesterday to pay the enhanced honorarium to the four applicants who were trainee doctors and were entitled for the raise in their salaries from January 2006. The applicant, Dr K D Gupta, who joined a DNB course, a postgraduate course equivalent to MD or MS course, was recruited by Sunder Lal Hospital as a trainee doctor and was being paid a monthly stipened of Rs 11,000. The NBE, through its letter dated May 8, 2006 directed all the hospitals to enhance the stipened to Rs 18,000 per month which would be applicable from January 2006 but the hospital failed to honour the notification on the grounds that it was a private hospital and did not fall in the ambit of such guidelines. The Court held that it is a well settled law that hospitals are accredited institutions, who conduct courses for the purpose of training in the NBE programmes and render services to the people at large. Therefore there was no dispute that the hospital being a private one would not be covered under the NBE rules. The Court directed the hospital to pay the balance payments to the petitioners at the revised rates with effect from January 2006. UNI SNG RSA NS0947

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