Vellore med college faces acute water shortage
Karal.Marx@timesgroup.com
Vellore: 27.06.2019
Even as the state government plans to bring 10 million litres of water from Jolarpet in Vellore to Chennai everyday, to solve the city’s acute water crisis, Vellore Government Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday sent its diploma nursing students to nine days leave allegedly due to water shortage in the campus.
While a senior officer incharge of the college and hostel administration accepted that there was a serious water shortage in the campus, the college administration said the students were sent on study leave so that they can prepare for upcoming exams in July and August.
However, a final year nursing student, in condition of anonymity, said, “The college had not sent students on study leaves in June to prepare for the model test and the final exam.”
A senior official at the college said the medical college inside the campus houses more than 8,000 students. The hospital houses an average of 4,000 patients, he added. In order to fulfil their water needs for drinking, bathing and toilet, an average of 4 lakh litres is required per day, he said.
Meanwhile, due to the monsoon failure and groundwater depletion, water supply has fallen to only 2 lakh litres per day, he said, adding, as a result half of the toilets inside the campus have run out of water.
In order to manage the current water situation, the college administration declared holiday for diploma nursing students from Saturday (June 22) till July 1, an official said.
Resident medical officer C Inbaraj told TOI that 10 borewells and pipe water supplied from Nagandhi river was the main resource of water to the hospital. Due to the depletion of groundwater, the hospital was not getting adequate supply for the past two months. However, he denied that the diploma students were sent on leave due to the water shortage. “We have urged the Directorate of Medical College to supply us with 4 lakh litre from the Cauvery joint water project,” he said.
Karal.Marx@timesgroup.com
Vellore: 27.06.2019
Even as the state government plans to bring 10 million litres of water from Jolarpet in Vellore to Chennai everyday, to solve the city’s acute water crisis, Vellore Government Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday sent its diploma nursing students to nine days leave allegedly due to water shortage in the campus.
While a senior officer incharge of the college and hostel administration accepted that there was a serious water shortage in the campus, the college administration said the students were sent on study leave so that they can prepare for upcoming exams in July and August.
However, a final year nursing student, in condition of anonymity, said, “The college had not sent students on study leaves in June to prepare for the model test and the final exam.”
A senior official at the college said the medical college inside the campus houses more than 8,000 students. The hospital houses an average of 4,000 patients, he added. In order to fulfil their water needs for drinking, bathing and toilet, an average of 4 lakh litres is required per day, he said.
Meanwhile, due to the monsoon failure and groundwater depletion, water supply has fallen to only 2 lakh litres per day, he said, adding, as a result half of the toilets inside the campus have run out of water.
In order to manage the current water situation, the college administration declared holiday for diploma nursing students from Saturday (June 22) till July 1, an official said.
Resident medical officer C Inbaraj told TOI that 10 borewells and pipe water supplied from Nagandhi river was the main resource of water to the hospital. Due to the depletion of groundwater, the hospital was not getting adequate supply for the past two months. However, he denied that the diploma students were sent on leave due to the water shortage. “We have urged the Directorate of Medical College to supply us with 4 lakh litre from the Cauvery joint water project,” he said.
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