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Quota: Medicos move to Delhi
MORE THAN 50 undergraduate and postgraduate students of Institute of Medical Sciences at Banaras Hindu University on Friday moved to the national capital to extend their moral support to the medicos against anti-reservation agitation there. Raising slogans like ?Chalo Delhi? ?Arjun Singh Sharm Karo?, ?Don?t divide society on the basis of caste? and ?Kendra Sarkar Murdabad?, the medicos under the banner of Resident Doctor?s Association started for Delhi by Shiv Ganga Express from Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station late in the evening today.
MORE THAN 50 undergraduate and postgraduate students of Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Friday moved to the national capital to extend their moral support to the medicos against anti-reservation agitation there.
Raising slogans like ‘Chalo Delhi’ ‘Arjun Singh Sharm Karo’, ‘Don’t divide society on the basis of caste’ and ‘Kendra Sarkar Murdabad’, the medicos under the banner of Resident Doctor’s Association (RDA) started for Delhi by Shiv Ganga Express from Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station late in the evening today.
The vice-president of RDA, Dr Mithilesh Pandey is leading the delegation, which would join the ongoing agitation against Union government’s proposal to enhance reservation at Central-government funded higher academic institutes. “Our main aim is to extend moral support to our colleagues in Delhi and get them realised that they were not alone in their agitation”, said a RDA member Dr Mahesh P Kate.
However, the medical services at Sir Sunderlal Hospital of BHU continue to suffer as the agitation of medical students entered its fourth day here today. Various wings of SS Hospital such as out patient department (OPD) ward, emergency ward, intensive care unit (ICU), coronary care unit (CCU) wore a deserted look today. As a result of this ongoing agitation, the patients have started migrating from the hospital and getting admitted in other private nursing homes near BHU hospital.
However, the agitated medical students continue to extend medical assistance from different counters of parallel OPD on SS Hospital premises to the patients.
A large number of patients were seen on the parallel OPD of striking medical students. Patients were distributed free medicines from the parallel counters.
Students are of the view that the reservation should be extended on the basis of economic condition instead of caste-line, as it would widen the gap between different communities across the country. “We are not against reservation, but that should be based on economic condition and not on caste-line”, said the RDA members. The students further added that instead of extending reservation in higher classes the government should ensure better education facilities at primary level so that the children of deprived community should get proper academic ground.
It may be noted that the medical students took out a ‘candle procession’ from Lanka crossing on Thursday evening and offered one thousands ‘diyas’ earthen lamps in the holy river Ganga at Assi Ghat for the ‘buddhi-shuddhi’ of Union Government. Members of Indian Medical Association (IMA) performed ‘buddhi-shuddhi’ yagna in Lahurabeer on Thursday evening.
Meanwhile, in Allahabad anti-reservation agitation gathered momentum with junior doctors declaring 24-hours strike on Friday. The students and junior doctors of Moti Lal Nehru Medical College crippled the emergency services at the Swaroop Rani Nehru and SN Children Hospital.
