Medicos: Made to give consent for exams

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad:  16.06.2020

Days ahead of the final examinations, post-graduate students from various private medical and dental colleges in Telangana, on Monday, claimed that they were being forced by the management to sign an undertaking, consenting to the tests.

Junior doctors alleged that at least three private medical colleges from Nalgonda, Karimnagar and Mahbubnagar are coercing final year postgraduation/diploma students to sign the undertaking.

“We are not sure as to what led private college managements to make students sign such an undertaking. We are waiting for the court to take a decision on the matter,” said K Mahesh Kumar, president, Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association.

The final year PG exams in colleges affiliated to Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) are scheduled from June 20. “Already 60 doctors are infected by the coronavirus so far. If the examination is held, more doctors are at the risk of contracting it,” said a junior doctor.

College managements refused collection of such undertaking from PG students. “For any private college, it doesn’t matter if the exams are postponed or not,” said Narasimha Rao, president of Telangana Private Medical and Dental Colleges Association.

When asked, Karunaker Reddy, vice-chancellor of KNRUHS too denied knowledge about any such undertaking. “I have not received any such complaint from students. Any such undertaking is irrelevant as the matter is sub-judice now,” said Reddy.