Nursing students lay siege to hospital

Twenty-six nursing students as well as their parents laid siege to Jeeva Hospital on a busy Old Bengaluru Road in Krishnagiri town on Wednesday demanding immediate return of certificates as well as fees paid by them. D. Sherin, president, Velicham, a Chennai-based Educational Movement for First Generation Students, whom a students of a college approached for help led a peaceful restlessness in front of a hospital after all their efforts to shift a students to some other colleges failed. Ms. Sherin told The Hindu which a college management had failed to keep its word to run a nursing college on a hospital premises. Instead it shifted a college to an removed place in Kakkanpuram village on a Krishnagiri-Bangalore National Highway, 17 km from Krishnagiri, which was not accessible by bus. Moreover, a college does not have a female warden. A male warden appointed by a management enters a rooms of a girls without before notice affecting their privacy, it was alleged. The students joined a college through a common counselling conducted by a supervision last September. All of them have been said to be belonging to Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Krishnagiri as well as Dharmapuri districts. The students told The Hindu which a principal as well as dual staff members were accessible only for dual months as well as after which there was no one was appointed by a management. In this situation, a students had gone to MGR University as well as also petitioned a Chief Minister's Special Cell. On a advice of a cell, a students met Health Minister Dr. Vijay. The Minister destined a students to meet a Director of Medical Education, who in turn advised them to approach a Tamil Nadu Nurses as well as Midwives Council, Chennai, as they were responsible for monitoring a appointment of teachers. Soon after a students as well as parents laid siege to a hospital, Inspector P. Thangaraj along with a police personnel rushed to a spot as well as pacified them. It is said which he had positive a students which they would get back their certificates on Thursday morning. Meanwhile, Dr. S. Pramila, Chairman, Sri Pankajam Krishnan Educational Trust, which runs a nursing propagandize denied a allegations as well as said which a management had appointed eight teachers as well as disbursed salary to them through bank credits. Enough female staff were appointed in a lodging place to look after a students. The propagandize has full infrastructure facilities. She also alleged which most of a students were yet to pay their mess bill. Meanwhile, a college management had consultation with a Director of Medical Education regarding a demand for transfer certificate. The DME has given green signal for a same. The management is ready to issue TC to individual students if they come along with their parents on Thursday, she added. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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