Tamil Nadu - Salem   

‘Police action against medical graduates unwarranted’

— Photos: E. Lakshmi Narayanan and M. Periasamy

Demanding justice: Medical students and house surgeons staging a demonstration at Salem Mohan Kumaramangalam Government Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to condemn police action on their colleagues in Chennai on Monday. (Right) A section of medical students demonstrating at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.

SALEM: Wearing black badges, medical students and house surgeons of Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Memorial Medical College Hospital here staged a dharna on Tuesday to protest against the police action on medical graduates who resorted to road blockade in Chennai on Monday during PG courses counselling.

The students here claimed that police unleashed violence against the graduates who, to show their protest against the Directorate of Medical Education’s refusal to call all of them for the counselling session for the postgraduate courses. They also said that police action against the medical graduates was unwarranted and uncalled for. Hence, to show their solidarity with the affected graduates, the students of the Medical College Hospital here had decided to wear black badges.

They also staged a dharna on the hospital premises.

The agitation lasted for nearly an hour. Senior doctors and officials held talks with them.

Heavy police pickets have also been posted to avoid any untoward incident. Senior doctors, however, claimed that there was no disruption in duty hours both in out-patient and in-patient care of the hospital.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Office-bearers
Novel protest by MDMK cadres
Rights activists stage demonstration
Demonstration
Protest against increase in fuel price
‘Police action against medical graduates unwarranted’

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu