Post-graduate students of the Nizamia Tibbi hospital have gone on a strike demanding stipends which are due for seven months. The outpatient department has been suspended due to the strike.
Secretary Dr Mohammed Junaid of the Unani students Association at the Nizamia Tibbi Hospital said, “The stipends have been due for the past seven months. Earlier it used to be credited every 3 months however this time, but the gap has been too long. The stipends used to be on par with Allopathy. In 2016 it 23,000 per month and it has remained the same since then.”
In January this year, the Telangana high court directed the authorities to pay stipends within three months.