Reopen medical colleges: FORDA urges Delhi Govt

FORDA India's General Secretary, Sunil Arora, told IANS that academic activities have not yet begun at the Maulana Azad Medical College and the GTB Hospital, which come under the ambit of the Delhi government. "Students have lost one year of learning and skill building. Academic activities must resume in a phased manner," he said.

FORDA India, an umbrella body of resident doctors, regrets that the undergraduate and postgraduate students at these colleges are under stress owing to their academic loss and gloomy future.

Since several healthcare institutions have been designated as exclusive Covid-19 facilities, the doctors' association also urged the Delhi government to initiate non-Covid services in these institutions and bring back first year postgraduate students, who are deployed at the peripheries for Covid-19 services, to their parent institutes.

It requested Kejriwal and Jain to deploy fresh manpower for Covid-care in these healthcare institutions.

"Academic activities in healthcare institutions with associated medical colleges have come to a standstill. Both undergraduate MBBS students and postgraduate resident doctors have already lost huge proportions of their precious academic periods and have incurred serious losses in their academics," the letter said.

Meanwhile, the third Covid wave has weakened in the national capital with decline in daily coronavirus cases. In November, the city was in the grip of the third wave of the infection. The city has now been recoding less than 2,000 coronavirus cases a day from the last one week.

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