Hyderabad:Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan has called for a thorough inquiry into the death of Dr D Preethi, a PG medical first year student of Kakatiya Medical College (KMC) in Warangal after she attempted suicide allegedly due to the harassment by a senior.
Preethi died during treatment at Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here after battling for life for five days on Sunday.
The Governor paid homage to Dr Preethi, a Raj Bhavan Communique said on Tuesday.
Taking a serious note of the tragic incident of Dr Preethi’s suicide, the Raj Bhavan under the instructions of Dr Soundararajan, has written a letter to Vice Chancellor of the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS).
The letter termed the death of Dr Preethi as terrible and needs a thorough inquiry from all possible angles to find out the truth.The Governor’s office has also called for a detailed report on the Standard Operating Procedures in place to deal with such incidents of harassment and ragging in the health sciences university.
The letter also enquired about the SoP manuals in place to deal with the duty hours of the medicos and the Assistant Professors and the establishing and functioning of the CC cameras at the medical colleges and hospitals.
The issues like functioning of the Grievance Redress Cell, addressing the concerns of the victims, evaluation of the feedback from the medicos and their working conditions were also highlighted in the letter from the Raj Bhavan.
The letter also mentioned the loss of precious time in shifting of the victim to the NIMS Hospital, it had suggested instead the super specialty experts and required advanced medical equipment should have been moved to the MGM Hospital so as to give the best possible treatment to Dr Preethi.The letter also called for a report on the anti-ragging measures and mechanism in place under the control of the vice chancellor of the university.
The Governor called for the strict implementation of the anti- ragging and anti-harassment laws in the medical colleges with special focus on protecting the students, especially the women medicos.
It had also suggested the strengthening of the grievance redressal mechanism and creation of a student counselling cell headed by the HoD of the Psychiatry wing in each medical college.
The letter mentioned that the Governor directed the Vice Chancellor to create better awareness among the medicos and the faculty and effective strategies to prevent any such unfortunate incident in the future.
Police arreested few accused, Prima facia looks like ragging case
An Intermediate first-year student allegedly committed suicide by hanging from ceiling in his class room at a private college in Narshingi area of Rangareddy district on Tuesday night.
The student took the extreme step at 2230 hours after his study hours.
The inmates, who noticed the student hanging from the ceiling immediately shifted him to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him dead, police said.The body was shifted to Osmania Hospital for post-mortem.
A case has been registered and an investigation is underway.Meanwhile, the relatives of the student and NSUI leaders held a protest in front of the college.They alleged that the student had committed suicide due to stress and torture by the college staff.
Based on a complaint of the parents of the deceased student, police arrested College faculties Acharya, Krishnareddy and hostel warden Naresh. Further investigation is underway.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Students Federation of India (SFI) held a dharna in front of the college demanding justice for the student’s family and stern action against the college authorities.In the meantime, police intervened and arrested them.Police made tight security arrangements at the college premises.(UNI)
