Delhi Doctors ask to delist medical colleges dedicated as COVID facilities, say academics affected severely
Since non-Covid treatments have been stopped in Lok Nayak Jai Prakas Delhi government Narayan (LNJP) Hospital and Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, the academic resident doctors said that the learning of the medical students has been affected severely.;
New Delhi: As the country entered into the ninth month of the Covid-19 pandemic, the doctors of two top medical colleges which come under the ambit of the Delhi government are exasperated by the months-long suspension of medical education in these institutions.
The resident doctors of the Maulana Azad Medical College and the University College of Medical Sciences told IANS that they have requested the hospital authorities to turn two associated hospitals — Lok Nayak Jai PrakasDelhi government Narayan (LNJP) Hospital and Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital — into non-Covid facilities and resume clinical practices of over 3,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying there.
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The LNJP and GTB have currently dedicated Covid hospitals. Since non-Covid treatments have been stopped in these two hospitals, the academic resident doctors said that the learning of the medical students has been affected severely.
Besides, their exclusivity for Covid patients is denying the non-Covid patients their right to treatment, they added.
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