Resident doctors of Sion hospital will receive a breakfast allowance of Rs 1,250, reinstated after a two-year hiatus. This decision is part of several assurances made by BMC officials to resident doctors across all four of its medical colleges, following their threat of a mass leave starting Monday.

One of the foremost demands of the doctors was an increase in their stipend by Rs 10,000, raising their total monthly remuneration to about Rs 90,000. “The demand has been accepted, and the proposal has been sent and cleared. The stipend should be credited in August, and pending arrears for the previous five months shall be credited,” a statement from the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors says.