CHENNAI: The transfer of eight postgraduate medical students from one government facility at Egmore to another in Triplicane in the middle of an academic year has been stayed by the Madras high court, which said the shift was bound to create serious hardship for the students.
Justice M Sathyanarayanan, granting interim injunction restraining the health department from giving effect to its August 2014 order transferring the eight students, said if the transfer is permitted they would have to start their theses afresh, which may hamper the submission of thesis, which is one of the essential requirements for completing the course.
According to the counsel representing the students, all the eight were doing PG courses at Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Egmore and they had been asked to move to Institute of Social Obstetrics and Kasthurba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children at Chepauk in Triplicane.
Assailing the transfer, the medicos said they were being training under a particular set of teaching staff, and had identified patients for study population. A transfer at this time might lead to extreme difficulty in submitting the thesis.
Justice Sathyanarayanan concurred with their submissions and said the students had already identified patients for case study and they are also guided by faculties attached to the Egmore hospital. If they are asked to move to another hospital midway it would hamper their thesis, he said.
He then granted interim injunction, and adjourned the matter to August 26 for further proceedings.
Justice M Sathyanarayanan, granting interim injunction restraining the health department from giving effect to its August 2014 order transferring the eight students, said if the transfer is permitted they would have to start their theses afresh, which may hamper the submission of thesis, which is one of the essential requirements for completing the course.
According to the counsel representing the students, all the eight were doing PG courses at Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Egmore and they had been asked to move to Institute of Social Obstetrics and Kasthurba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children at Chepauk in Triplicane.
Assailing the transfer, the medicos said they were being training under a particular set of teaching staff, and had identified patients for study population. A transfer at this time might lead to extreme difficulty in submitting the thesis.
Justice Sathyanarayanan concurred with their submissions and said the students had already identified patients for case study and they are also guided by faculties attached to the Egmore hospital. If they are asked to move to another hospital midway it would hamper their thesis, he said.
He then granted interim injunction, and adjourned the matter to August 26 for further proceedings.
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