The BMC decision to provide breakfast to all resident doctors follows the death of Sion Hospital intern, Samidha Khandare (24) who succumbed to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis on July 1, and also 15 other resident doctors contracting TB in the last few months.

While the resident doctors are currently provided a measly Rs 10 daily for breakfast, the BMC is set to launch a buffet breakfast, which will be mandatory for resident doctors every day.