On Sunday, the students at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital who are protesting their demand for the holding of the student council elections kept up their hunger strike for the eleventh day in a row.
A demonstrator declared, “We have chosen to stay on hunger strike until the day of the student council election is announced.”
The students maintained that their hunger strike or other forms of protest had no impact on patient care, despite claims from the authorities that the medical college’s operations were being hampered because crucial documents and files were not being signed.
With the situation in mind, the college’s vice-principal and superintendent, Anjan Adhikari, and the school’s principal, Dr. Indranil Biswas, have chosen to work from the Health Department’s Swasthya Bhawan instead of travelling to the college.
According to a member of the college administration, it was impossible to concentrate on work in such a setting. I won’t claim that the demands made by the students are unethical, but it appears that they are not open to discussion. A doctor questioned, “Who will be held accountable if something bad happens to a patient? The principal, department heads, superintendents, deputy superintendents, and nursing superintendents had previously been gheraoed for about 35 hours.
