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Students stage protest against doctors' `negligence'

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`Accident victim Anup was not given timely treatment'

MAKING A PLEA: College students staging a protest in front of the Basaveshwar Teaching and General Hospital in Gulbarga on Wednesday.

GULBARGA: Students from various colleges staged a protest in front of the Basaveshwar Teaching and General Hospital, demanding action against the doctors allegedly responsible for the death of their colleague who was injured in an accident on Tuesday.

They accused the doctors and hospital authorities of negligence, which had allegedly led to the death of the Anup, a student of the Sharanabasaveshwar Residential Pre-University Composite college in the city. The students alleged that when the badly injured Anup was brought to the hospital he was alive. But he had died owing to the "negligence" of the doctors in the Casualty department.

Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society president Basavaraj Bhimalli arrived at the spot and assured the students that an investigation would be conducted and action taken. cut the students sought immediate action against the doctors and burnt the effigy of Mr. Bhimalli. They later withdrew their agitation.Inquiries had revealed that Anup had been involved in a hit-and-run case in the city. But the registration number of the vehicle was not available with the police or the victim's relatives, the police said.

Sources said that immediately after the accident, the victim was first taken to a private hospital and later to the Government General Hospital before being brought to the Basaveshwar Teaching and General Hospital.

Basaveshwar Hospital authorities said that the victim was gasping for breath when brought there and had succumbed to his injuries within ten minutes. The friends and relatives of the victims had also forcibly taken the body without allowing a post-mortem.

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