M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, July 27: The Medinirai Medical College at Pokhraha in Daltonganj is struggling to get one more body for its anatomy practical classes as MBBS students have to remain contented with only one body for dissection.
There are 100 MBBS students in the first year of the session 2021-22 here who have anatomy as one of their papers. 92 other MBBS students are in the third year.
Mutilated, charred, burnt, disfigured, amputated, incised, bodies of victims of rape, murder, suicide etc cannot be used for anatomy practical classes in the medical college.
The principal of the Medinirai medical college, Dr Shailendra Kumar said, “Our college needs one additional body for the anatomy practical classes. We can’t go for any postmortemed body as well.”
Getting a body for this purpose is a very difficult task for the medical colleges now as one can’t be unmindful of an unclaimed body as no one knows when the civil, police and judiciary may step in this regard.
Sources said not only the Medinirai medical college is battling to get an additional body but there are reports that in medical colleges at Dumka and Hazaribagh and even AIIMS Deoghar, there is a long wait for the body.
Apart from the scarcity of bodies, the Daltonganj medical college has a chronic problem of erratic electricity supply. The erratic electricity supply here often derails the functioning of the Covid test lab set up in the college leading to the shut down of the RT-PCR test.
“Inadequate and improper supply of the electricity really affects our Covid test lab as three of our sensitive machines like RTPCR, auto extractor machine and master mixing machine get badly affected if the power supply is erratic,” said Principal Dr Shailendra Kumar.
Sources said the medical college has no issue with the water but nevertheless, it aims at further improving the water supply system from the nearby Kacharwa dam.
Apart from this, the medical college library has books and journals around 3,000 plus which is required to be added to with every passing academic year. Dr Shailendra Kumar said we are buying books as it is needed by the teachers and MBBS students.
Sources said the medical college and its affiliating university the Nilamber Pitamber university Daltonganj gets into loggerheads more often where the two fling charges at each other.
Notably, the medical colleges pan India are mandated by the National Medical Commission to adhere to its strict examination and publication of results schedules etc. However, the Medinirai medical college lags behind and looks up to the Nilamber Pitamber University to bail out while the university here cites its acute shortage of manpower for any delay whatsoever in the notification of the exam schedules, schedules for the practical exams and the publication of the results etc.
Sources said there is another issue where the medical college and the NPU ‘agree to disagree’. The issue is related to the process of the affiliation accompanied by authentication of it by two officials of the university for which the medical college is directed to get it all done by itself.
Sources said the medical college resents this procurement of authentication by the university’s two officers which this university on its own could have got it done itself sparing the medical college of the chamber to chamber moving for the authentication.
Palamu DC Anjaneyulu Dodde has directed the administrator of this college Shailesh Kumar Singh, Nazareth deputy collector and incharge of nearly half dozen offices to arrange a meeting on July 28 where the two stakeholders the medical college and NPU officials will come.
The medical college has some reasons to be cheered up as, since 2019, when teaching started here, no incident of ragging has been reported on the campus. Bus services for the MBBS students have also started. A gala white coat ceremony on the campus was also organised which was a delight to one and all. Lift is now operational in the college and teachers and students both have now easy access to the lecture theatre atop the surface floors.
