Andhra Pradesh medicos allege lack of amenities at GMCs
Vijaywada: The Government medical colleges at Andhra Pradesh are unable to offer proper amenities and facilities, claimed the Undergraduate and Postgraduate medical students undergoing different courses at these institutes.
Alleging that the colleges are lacking to provide them with proper student care, the medical students in the State have claimed that these scarcity is resulting in hardships for the students to pursue their education.
The problems that these students have referred to include proper hostel accommodation, proper library facilities, reading halls and playgrounds. Due to this, the students are left with no choice but to share the hostel rooms and around three to four UG or PG students are being accommodated in one single room, which should accommodate only two. In some instances, the medical students need to stay in hostels meant for paramedical students.
As per the latest media report by Deccan Chronicle, in case of Sri Venkateswara Medical College in Tirupati, the hostel building where the PG medicos stay is in a dilapidated condition. The Tirupati college does not have any hostel for the PG medicos and similar condition is at the Government Medical College Anantapur as well. Resultantly, these students are being accommodated in temporary hostels.
While on the one hand, these colleges are unable to provide proper hostel facility to the students, the medicos are also unable to afford private accommodation by paying huge monthly rentals. Therefore, left with no choice but to stay in the college hostels in inconvenient situations, these medicos are also upset with the fact that the State Government has not yet revised their monthly stipend by making it at par with other states.
Although recently the medicos decided to serve strike notice on revision of stipend to the Director of Medical Education, their plans got deferred after the DME assured to take up the matter with the State Government.
While commenting on this, the President of AP Junior Doctors' Association, Dr. J Jeshwanth said, "We appeal to the state government that it provide better amenities to students in all government medical colleges and also revise the stipend upwards. This will free us from daily worries and enable us to provide better healthcare to patients in the state."
Expressing the grievances, a student told Deccan Chronicle that instead of improving the quality of amenities in the Government medical colleges, the State is focusing more to increase the number of institutes.
