Parents, students shut down hospital after college fails to resume classes
TNN | Feb 24, 2019, 07.14 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Agitated over classes not resuming at the Maheshwara Medical College and Hospital even after meeting university officials, students and their parents held a protest at the college's Patancheru campus, on Saturday, and forcibly closed down the hospital for about five hours. Sources said about 300 people participated in the strike.
Parents said they will allow the hospital to function only after the institute chairman gives an assurance that classes will resume from Monday. They had earlier met officials of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences - all medical colleges in the state are affiliated to it - who had promised to intervene and resolve the issue.
"Initially, we forcefully shutdown all services except emergencies and asked doctors and other medical staff to step out of the hospital," said Bhadri B, whose daughter is studying in second-year MBBS. He added, "There was no one from the management to stop us and only after few hours, the management tried to get in touch with us through video conference."
According to parents, they went to the campus on receiving a message from college management. "We got a message from the college, saying they would resolve the issue today. However, on reaching we realised that we have been fooled yet again by the management. That's when we decided to close the hospital," said P Prabhakar, another parent.
Demanding that the varsity take strict action against the institute, parents said they cannot wait any longer. "For over a month now my daughter has been going to college daily and coming back because classes are not being conducted," said Vijaya Lakshmi, another parent.
The university officials, meanwhile, said they will form a committee to inquire into the issue. The college faculty decided to discontinue classes from January as the management failed to pay salaries for six months. From then, students and parents have been requesting the management to clear dues and ensure that classes resume.
TNN | Feb 24, 2019, 07.14 AM IST
HYDERABAD: Agitated over classes not resuming at the Maheshwara Medical College and Hospital even after meeting university officials, students and their parents held a protest at the college's Patancheru campus, on Saturday, and forcibly closed down the hospital for about five hours. Sources said about 300 people participated in the strike.
Parents said they will allow the hospital to function only after the institute chairman gives an assurance that classes will resume from Monday. They had earlier met officials of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences - all medical colleges in the state are affiliated to it - who had promised to intervene and resolve the issue.
"Initially, we forcefully shutdown all services except emergencies and asked doctors and other medical staff to step out of the hospital," said Bhadri B, whose daughter is studying in second-year MBBS. He added, "There was no one from the management to stop us and only after few hours, the management tried to get in touch with us through video conference."
According to parents, they went to the campus on receiving a message from college management. "We got a message from the college, saying they would resolve the issue today. However, on reaching we realised that we have been fooled yet again by the management. That's when we decided to close the hospital," said P Prabhakar, another parent.
Demanding that the varsity take strict action against the institute, parents said they cannot wait any longer. "For over a month now my daughter has been going to college daily and coming back because classes are not being conducted," said Vijaya Lakshmi, another parent.
The university officials, meanwhile, said they will form a committee to inquire into the issue. The college faculty decided to discontinue classes from January as the management failed to pay salaries for six months. From then, students and parents have been requesting the management to clear dues and ensure that classes resume.
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