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Doctors' meeting with college management fails

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA, APRIL 23. The conciliatory meeting convened by the Deputy Commissioner, Anjum Parvez, between the striking teaching staff and doctors of the Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College and the management failed to find an amicable solution and the Deputy Commissioner, who did some tough talking with the management representatives, has convened another meeting on Saturday to find a solution to the indefinite strike by the doctors which entered the third day on Friday.

The Secretary of the Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society, Sharad Rampure, the managing council members, Baburao Mangane and Sampath Kumar Loya, the convenor of the Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College Teachers Association, R.C. Kanta, and the representatives of the Non-Teaching Staff Association, N.D. Patil and R.K. Hudgi, participated in the meeting. The representatives of the management pleaded that they were not in a position to take a decision on the demands made by the doctors as B.G. Jawali, President of the Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society, which runs the medical college, was away in New Delhi to hold discussions with the Union Government officials and the Medical Council of India to get renewal of permission to admit students for both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses this academic year.

(The Medical Council of India has withheld permission to admit students to both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the college this academic year on various grounds, including non-fulfilment of certain conditions.)

The Deputy Commissioner told the representatives of the management and the doctors that the Government could not remain a spectator to the problems faced by patients at the Basaveshwara Teaching and General Hospital and Sangameshwar Hospital attached to the medical college.

Mr. Parvez advised the representatives of the management to get in touch with Dr. Jawali immediately and come out with a solution to end the strike by the doctors, which had affected services in the three hospitals.

He appealed to the doctors to persuade the postgraduate students, who had joined the strike in support of their seniors, to attend to emergency duties in the hospitals to mitigate the problems of the patients.

A spokesperson of the doctors said that a letter in this connection had been written to the postgraduate students and they were likely to take a decision on the request soon.

Meanwhile, the health condition of the president of the teachers association, S.M. Patil, who has been fasting since three days, was said to be stable.

A team of government doctors conducted different tests on Dr. Patil. Medical services in the three hospitals continued to be hit because of the strike and all the departments were deserted with no doctors and patients.

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