No CAT scans at GMCH spur protest

The Youth Congress (Nagpur) led a protest on Monday at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) against the non-functioning of the CAT scan machine for the last 23 days.

Party general secretary

Kunal Puri

said, “On October 14 we met dean Dr

Abhimanyu Niswade

and put firth our demands which we wanted fulfilled within two days, if not we would stage a protest. The party now plans to file a PIL regarding the non-operational CAT scan.”

Around 40 party members gathered around GMCH’s super specialty hospital (SSH) at 3.30pm. The protest was to be staged in front of the dean’s office, but due to tight police security, they moved it to the college gate. Effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, state medical education minister

Girish Mahajan

and state health minister

Deepak Sawant

, were burnt.