BJ medicos demand action against HoDs

 BJ medicos demand action against HoDs

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

11.01.2022

Ahmedabad: Undergraduate and postgraduate medical students at BJ Medical College (BJMC) sat on protest outside the college dean’s office on Monday, demanding that action be taken against Dr Ila Upadhyaya and Dr Kamlesh Upadhyaya. The students want action based on complaints made by undergraduate students and junior doctors.

Kamlesh Upadhyaya, the head of the medicine department, had allegedly told final year undergraduate students that they would not be given attendance marks that would enable them to take their final exams, as 75% attendance is compulsory. The protesting students said that while they may not have reached the minimum figures for the medicine department, they have been on duty at various hospitals while dealing with the Covid pandemic.

BJMC dean Dr Jayesh Sachdeva said, “Students had sat on protest outside my office. ” He added: “To deal with this extraordinary situation, we put out a circular that all clinical postings of students while dealing with the Covid situation should be taken into account to compute attendance and internal marks. ”

Protesting medicos said that while the surgery, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology departments had considered Covid duties performed, only the medicine de- partment did not. The students had alleged that the medicine HOD had also been mentally harassing students.

Dr Oman Prajapati, vicepresident of the BJMC junior doctors’ association (JDA), said, “Dr Kamlesh Upadhyaya has been facing accusations from postgraduate students that he was harassing them mentally. ” Prajapati added: “Now even undergraduate students are making the same allegations. Yet no action has been taken against him. Who is shielding him?”

Students had accused Professor Ila Upadhyaya, head of the ENT department, of demanding ‘gifts’. The Junior Doctors’ Association wrote a letter to the dean on Monday, to press its demand for action against these professors as ample time has passed since the complaints were made.