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A BLACK PATCH !
KGMU TEACHERS have termed the ransacking on the campus as a black patch in the entire 100-year history of the institute that happened due to lack of concern for the mother institute and campus politics.
KGMU TEACHERS have termed the ransacking on the campus as a black patch in the entire 100-year history of the institute that happened due to lack of concern for the mother institute and campus politics.
Says Dr Ramakant, the chief medical superintendent, “I am shocked by the incident. Definitely, there were outsiders but were dually supported by insiders.
More so the feeling of belonging is nowhere among students now which could stop them from such activities.”
Dr Ramakant is planning to make a documentary on the entire history of KGMU and this particular incident. He said the film would be shown to students so they develop connectivity with campus and consider it as their mother and not just an institute.
Dr Madhu Srivastava said, “it has been over three decades that I spent on the campus as a students and then as teacher. But it was for the first time that violence came out in such a way on campus.”
Other teachers had similar views indicating the campus politics and vested interests behind the damage to the administrative office. Even the Vice Chancellor Prof Mahendra Bhandari indicated this. He said that the students who were at the hospital with Deepak Agrawal were not the same who attempted fire on campus.
Dr MC Pant, who organized the international alumni meet said, “damage to one’s own institute only means there is no respect in the mind of student. In fact those who indulge in such activities do not deserve to remain on campus.”
Teachers said protests had always been there but the methods had gone for a sea change. In the past it always used to be non violent with demonstrations on campus and boycott of academic activities.
“Violence and arson were never a tool of medical students as they are considered to be more sophisticated than any other institute,” Dr Pant stated.
Dr VK Srivastava of the Social and Preventive Medicine Department also stated a major loss for the loss of respect towards the institute.
The registrar Prof US Pandey also stated the incident as guided. “Some elements are there to create disturbances only and you cannot stop them. It’s the culture that they bring with them and you can only bear it till they are there,” he said.
They fail to see CM
AGITATED BY lack of medical care and thereon death of a fellow,
students of King George’s Medical University took out a protest march on roads on Friday morning.
Over 300 students started from the main gate of the varsity in the morning and marched towards the chief minister’s residence. They were holding placards with slogans written on them.
The march had a large number of girl students. They raised slogans demanding compensation for the death of their fellow Deepak Agrawal. He had met an accident at the Scientific Convention Centre on Wednesday and later died at a private hospital.
Police escorted the march that was participated by students of all the semesters. The cops told the marching students to reach the GPO where they could meet the CM. However, when the students reached the GPO they were told to reach the CM residence, as there was much crowd at GPO.
On way it was decided that only a few students could meet the CM for security reasons. By that time KGMU students had reached the Hazratganj crossing.
With a few names the cops then went to the CM residence to arrange for the meeting. But they returned empty hand and said since the CM was busy in a meeting they can now meet him on Saturday.
The agitating students then demonstrated on the roads for half an hour. Later, they were transported back to campus in police vans, on condition that they can meet the CM on Saturday.
A bigger trauma
The KGMU trauma doesn’t end with the ventilators— there is a long list of equipment and services that could not started at KGMUU’s Trauma Centre. Warranty period of some of the equipment is now over even as they could not get started.
The Disaster Management Ambulance worth over Rs 20 lakhs is standing on the campus. Appointment of drivers that were selected for driving that ambulance went under a stay in connection with a legal case against the appointment.
The Critical Care Ambulance worth over Rs 15 lakhs also remains unused while three ventilators at Trauma Centre are lying unexploited. It was the death of a KGMU student that brought to light the importance of running ventilators but how many deaths have already happened in the past due to lack of ventilator facility is a matter which has no answer.
A central oxygen system is also planned for the Trauma Centre but there seems no start for it. The connectivity for supplying gas is there in the entire Trauma Centre but the start is awaited.
The central suction system is also here but no used for the patients coming in traumatic condition.
It is not that the authorities are not concerned for the shortcomings at Trauma Centre.
There have been several meeting to improve the working at Trauma Centre but recommendations from none of them could be implemented.
Even appointments were done at Trauma Centre and KGMU but none of the employees was trained to run ventilator or other equipment that are kept useless.
