Doctors ask not to convert Medical College Kolkata to exclusive COVID hospital again
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Kolkata: With the recent surge in the number of COVID cases, the resident doctors of Medical College Kolkata (MCK) have requested the authorities not to convert the college into an exclusive COVID Hospital once again.
The Resident Doctors Association of Medical College Kolkata has recently submitted a letter to the principal of the college stating that they have secured information from certain sources that the hospital may again be turned into an exclusive COVID facility but they strongly opposed the suggestion as it will cause them a loss of necessary academic experience.
The doctors also expressed concern regarding the Non-COVID patients who might get neglected as well.
The association in a letter mentioned, " The institution was turned into an exclusive COVID hospital on May 2020 to handle the first wave of COVID. This led to all our departments closing gates to the huge pool of patients we catered to previously on a daily basis and it irreversibly damaged the clinical and academic training of all the students of this great institution. For more than one year now, we, the students of the institution have toiled day in and day out catering to the needs of treating the COVID-ridden state. This burden was neither shared nor supplemented by the students of any other institution where normal OPD wards and clinical training continued throughout."
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