PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, May 19: The MBBS students studying at the state’s largest medical college, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) are dissatisfied with the damp and dilapidated walls, a crumbling roof and lack of basic facilities.
There are a total of 12 hostels including boys and girls hostels which are in dilapidated condition.
According to the sources, about 750 students including both boys and girls of the 2016 to 2020 batch are forced to live in these dilapidated hostels.
A delegation under the banner of the Junior Doctor’s Association also met the RIMS Director regarding the hostel problems, but instead of taking a concrete decision to repair the hostel, the students were returned only after giving assurances.
Dr Vikas Kumar, President of the Junior Doctors Association said that for the last one and a half years, newspapers are not coming into the reading room of the hostel as well as water drips in the bathroom.
He said that more or less all the hostels are in dilapidated condition and are not fit to live in. In such a situation, boys and girls studying MBBS are forced to live thereby putting their lives at risk.
“If no concrete steps are taken by the RIMS management regarding the hostel repair, then soon a roadmap for the agitation would be prepared,” he added.
Students living at the hostel said that a water cooler is definitely installed in the hostel, but it does not work due to a lack of maintenance.
“All of us are not getting even drinking water. We are all compelled to buy bottled water from the market at Rs 30 per jar,” students said.
