M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, Sept 29: Rimsha Wasim, a third-year MBBS student at Medinirai Medical College at Pokhraha in Daltonganj studies for her forensic medicine and toxicology paper with the help of YouTube material or collects online stuff.
The reason behind this is that there is no teacher in forensic medicine and toxicology subject in this medical college. She like other students does not have access to any tutor or professor’s notes.
Rimsha said this paper contains 100 marks for theory and 100 marks for practical/ viva-voce. “We are forced to procure notes either from YouTube or online. But there is no way out for practicals of this subject.”
Another 3rd-year MBBS student Rohit Shukla said, “We don’t know how we will be through the examination. This paper is very important. There is a whole lot of medico-legal jurisprudence in this paper and it is Greek to us as there is no teacher to teach us.”
The 92 3rd-year MBBS students demand that the government must send a tutor/assistant professor/professor to teach forensic medicine and toxicology in this medical college.
Principal Dr Shailendra Kumar, who is to superannuate tomorrow (September 30) from services after serving it up to his age of 67 years, said: “The problems of our students demanding teachers for forensic medicine and toxicology are very genuine and it must be addressed. Otherwise, our students here will suffer without any fault.”
Atul Prakash, a faculty in this medical college, said: “There is not even one tutor in the department of forensic medicine and toxicology. Our students only hear about postmortem but there is no one to tell them its finer points. Similarly, cases of poisoning are reported the most but these MBBS students have no clue about what toxicology means and matters.”
He went on to say, “We hear of arsenic or lead in water which contaminates, gas leaks which are hazardous to health. The toxicology part of this forensic medicine subject enables MBBS students to deal with the situation. But how? There is no teacher to teach them.”
“Palamu has seen cases of deaths in wells during its cleaning or climbing down into it by villagers without exercising any caution. Similarly, poisonous snake bites are either neurotoxic or hemotoxic but the MBBS students here have no idea of its toxicology due to the absence of a teacher, “added Atul Prakash.
