The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has called for an urgent intervention from the Union Health Ministry to address excessive duty hours of resident doctors and alleged caste-based discrimination faced by postgraduate medical students from marginalized communities like SC, ST, OBC, EWS, and PwDs.

This comes after the Ministry of Social Justice received a representation submitted by the United Doctors Front (UDF) on 28.06.2025, in which the association sought an urgent intervention from the Ministry to address these issues.