NMCH first-year students demand revision of results

PATNA: The first-year MBBS students of Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) staged a protest near the emergency block on Monday, demanding revision of their results by Aryabhatta Knowledge University. They tried to close the OPD services. About 50 NMCH students were declared unsuccessful in the MBBS first examination.
Holding banners and placards with slogans like ‘acche bacche hue fail, kya hamari jindagi hai khel’ and ‘Bacche nahi, system fail hua’, they alleged irregularities in the evaluation of their answerbooks.
NMCH deputy superintendent Dr Satish Kumar said the students’ stir did not affect the normal functioning and doctors and paramedics attended both the OPDs and the wards. “As the number of viral fever cases has increased and over a hundred patients, including children, were reaching the hospital every day, the entire medical team remained vigilant to ensure that the agitating students should not cause any problem in providing timely medical treatment to the patients,” he said.
On Saturday, similar protests was staged on the PMCH campus. Poor success rate in the MBBS first examination was also reported from other medical colleges in the state. The Madhubani Government Medical College and Hospital principal and dean of the facility of medicine at AKU, Dr Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, said over 90 students of his college were declared unsuccessful. Prasad, however, said he has urged the AKU vice-chancellor and other authorities to look into their grievances.