Junior docs of College of Medicine & JNM Hospital in Kalyani demand security measures
The Junior doctors, interns and MBBS students of the College of Medicine & JNM Hospital in Kalyani continue to demand adequate security arrangements on the campus.
In wake of security threats in the College of Medicine & JNM Hospital in Kalyani, the Junior doctors, interns and MBBS students are demanding adequate security arrangements inside the campus.
The decision to continue the demonstration started on Saturday after an auditorium was vandalised and on Sunday a team of officials from West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) held talks with the junior doctors and other interns demanding to increase the security arrangements on the campus.
The sources have confirmed that the talks on Sunday did not seem to go well for both the parties, as reported by The Telegraph.
The protestors said that a team of six officials of WBUHS visited the campus and spoke to them but failed to offer any constructive solution.
“We categorically demanded renewed security measures inside the hospital and the academic campus, which includes our hostel. The entire premises is unguarded without closed gates. Moreover, we demanded closed-circuit cameras and again asked for a police outpost, a longstanding demand to ensure proper surveillance of the vast campus. The officials gave us a patient hearing, but no concrete assurance or decision,” said Salman Halder, a final-year MBBS student and the students’ union secretary.
“The meeting turned out to be useless. We expected the registrar to come and meet us. Unfortunately he did not bother. So we decided to continue with the agitation. We will wait for a few more days… and suspend all services at the hospital and classes too unless the problems are resolved,” he added.
Medical superintendent Avijit Mukherjee said, “I apprised higher authorities of the students’ demands, which are genuine. A team of officials interacted with students for a solution on Sunday.”
The students are also demanding that the vandalised auditorium must be repaired within one month as the structure was largely used for academic purposes.
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