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Medicos? stir to continue
DESPITE THE Union government having now decided that 27 per cent reservation for OBCs would be made in higher academic institutes from next year, medical students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are in no mood to relent on the issue.
DESPITE THE Union government having now decided that 27 per cent reservation for OBCs would be made in higher academic institutes from next year, medical students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are in no mood to relent on the issue.
They are even contemplating to go on a fast-unto-death in a day to two.
“We are now planning to go on a fast-unto-death in a day or two to make the he government realise the quota policy would only worsen the existing education system. Moreover, it would promote brain drain from the country,” said general secretary of the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA), Dr Mahesh P Kate
said. He added the date for the fast would be decided in the general body meeting of the RDA. The RDA members expressed commitment to continue to the indefinite strike till their demands were not fulfilled.
“We are not going to call off our stir till the Union government roll backs its decision,” said RDA members, adding ‘we would intensify our anti-reservation campaign against this politically motivated decision of the Central government’.
Besides, the infuriated medicos are also making an appeal to senior doctors and consultants of IMS-BHU to go on a ‘mass-leave’ and extend their support to the agitation. The anti-reservation stir, which entered its 12th day, is being launched under the RDA banner.
As many as five undergraduate and postgraduate students of Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS-BHU) including Dr Himanshu Verma, Dr Santosh Sharma, Dr Sumit Garg, Dr Tulika Rai and Dr Ritu Tripathi sat on a 48-hour relay hunger strike.
Meanwhile, condition of Dr Neha Kakani and Dr Baldeep Kaur Maan, whose condition deteriorated following the hunger strike on Thursday, was better today.
However, medical students continue to extend medical services to patients from their own parallel Out Patient Department (OPD) ward outside the OPD ward of Sir Sunderlal Hospital in BHU today.
More than 300 patients were diagnosed and distributed medicines.
Normal medical services at the SS Hospital remained affected.
Meanwhile, a seminar on resrvation highlighted if the government really wanted to uplift members of the backward and the deprived communities, then it would have to increase the budget allocation on education and improve academic infrastructure across the country.
