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Medicos to hold rally on May 25
AS PART of their ongoing anti-reservation agitation, the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University, are now planning to hold a massive rally on May 25 for the fulfillment of their demands. The medicos have launched a massive public awareness campaign across the city. Moreover, they are contacting heads of all religions to garner support for their movement.
AS PART of their ongoing anti-reservation agitation, the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University, are now planning to hold a massive rally on May 25 for the fulfillment of their demands.
The medicos have launched a massive public awareness campaign across the city.
Moreover, they are contacting heads of all religions to garner support for their movement.
The medicos have launched a movement to protest against the Union government’s proposal to enhance reservation from existing 22 per cent to 49.5 per cent in Central government funded higher academic institutes.
“We are in touch with heads of all religions including Mahant of Sankat Mochan Temple, Prof. Veer Bhadra Mishra, Mufti-e-Shehar Maulana Andul Batin Nomani, Father Patrick D’Souza and leaders of gurudwara to garner their support for the proposed massive anti-reservation rally on May 25,” said a medical student of IMS-BHU, Dr Mahesh P. Kate.
“This awareness campaign is being launched to make a general consensus against the quota policies of the government,” he added.
Kate added the proposed rally would be taken out from Malviya Bhawan in BHU to Assi ghat in the afternoon against the ‘immoral’ reservation.
He said they had even been mobilising students of other colleges and schools across the city to get support for their movement.
Meanwhile, the ‘relay hunger strike’ of medicos entered its seventh day today. Dr Arpan Chakravorty, Dr Vaibhav Srivastava, Dr Anshul Kumar Gupta, Dr Shivika Srivastava and Dr Charul Dhakad under the banner of Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) sat on the strike on IMS premises.
Besides, the work boycott strike by the agitating medical students entered its seventh day here today.
However, the medical students continued to extend medical services from their own parallel Out Patient Department (OPD) ward opposite the OPD of Sir Sunderlal Hospital at the BHU on Monday.
The agitating medicos have set up six counters such as gynaecology, surgery, medicine, paediatrics, skin and chest in their parallel OPD ward to help the patients coming for medical assistance.
Moreover, the protesting medicos have been extending medical support along with free medicines to patients who are visiting them.
More than 150 patients were reported to have been diagnosed in the parallel OPD ward today.
Medical services at SS Hospital of the Banaras Hindu University continued to suffer as its various wings including OPD ward, emergency ward, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Coronary Care Unit (CCU) wore a deserted look on Monday also.
