HYDERABAD: Students of Central University affiliated to the Students Federation of India have sought Health Indemnity Permit for all bona fide students on the campus which would provide direct access to all leading hospitals in the city with which the university has tie-ups.

"Such Health Indemnity Permit should be renewed every semester along with semester-wise registration of students," the students said in a memorandum submitted to the Vice-Chancellor here on Monday.

The death of a student on the campus recently was attributed to lack of proper facilities at the campus health centre as well as bureaucratic hurdles.

They said it was not the first such case of exigency and at least four other such incidents had happened in the past where better infrastructural support to the existing health centre could have saved their precious lives.

R. Prashanth, general secretary of SFI university unit, also demanded increase in the budgetary allocation for University Health Centre up to Rs. 25 lakhs per annum and setting up of an emergency unit which should, along with the required infrastructure to cater to emergency causalities, be staffed by qualified personnel.

The memorandum said specialist doctors who are supposed to come on a regular weekly schedule, are seldom found and most of the staff and nurses are not qualified. The ambulance is not fit for any further usage.

He said a complaint box should be set up at the centre and all complaints should be taken up by the Health Centre Advisory Board. We feel that it is time the administration initiated necessary steps to revamp the centre immediately.

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