1k medicos write final yr PG exam
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
21.06.2020
Hyderabad: Following the Telangana High Court’s nod, the Kaloji Narayana Rao University Sciences’ (KNRUS) authorities conducted the PG examinations as per schedule on Saturday. As many as 1,140 out of the total 1,187 PG students who had enrolled for the examination, took the test. The exams will conclude on June 29.
Last week several medicos, in a desperate attempt to postpone the exams had filed PIL in the high court seeking intervention. Many had written to senior officials, including the governor, making a similar appeal. However, the high court ruled in favour of the exams while asking authorities to maintain all safety precautions.
Among the students who wrote the exam on Saturday were some who had tested positive for Covid-19 earlier but have now completed their mandatory 14-day quarantine period. The remaining 47 students who did not appear for the examination are those who had requested the university authorities to allow them to appear later citing reasons like pregnancy, low immunity, having infants and elderly parents at home etc.
“We have taken special permission from the Medical Council of India (MCI) to allow conducting of examination for the 47, when the Covid-19 situation improves. We have agreed to transfer their fee to the later date. The single student who is Covid-19 positive currently, had requested on Friday that he wanted to write the examination. We made an examination centre at Gandhi Hospital just for him, while at the other centres we took all the necessary precautions like social distancing, sanitising etc,” said Dr Karunakar Rao, VC of the university.
Some students, however, claimed that no masks or hand sanitizer was provided to students writing their final year examinations. “We demand that the government and KNRUHS provide N-95 masks to exam-going students,” said Dr Mahesh Kumar, president, Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association.
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