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Daltonganj, June 21: It’s MMC (Medininagar Municipal Corporation) that saved MMCH (Medinirai Medical College Hospital) in Daltonganj. But for how long?
The question is raised in both institutions. The medical college has 500 of its population including 392 medical students and 100 faculty members and their families.
This medical college has no deep boring. It cries for water every summer. This summer this medical college cried terribly. It wanted water 24×7.
The MMC rushed its water tankers there. The city commissioner of Medininagar Municipal Corporation Md Jawed Hussain and his team worked overtime to at least contain the crisis of water in the campus.
But water tankers can never meet the water crisis of any medical college. The medical college will have to have its own internal water resources. And here its management falters.
City Commissioner Md Jawed Hussain has a point when he said “How many times in a day you will be looking for our water tankers on the campus? The medical college should by now take a leaf and go all out for its own water resources.”
Water tanker is a fire fighting measure but where the problem is chronic the institution is most expected to have developed its own water resources by now as there is no guarantee the summer of 2025 will be any lesser in severity than the summer of 2024.
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What the city commissioner Hussain told, the executive engineer of the drinking water and sanitation department Rameshwar Gupta padded with more candid comments saying “How is it that this medical college can’t afford to have three deep borings worth 10 lakhs or so in its sprawling campus by now to tide over the water crisis? The medical college can’t shut its eyes towards this.”
The executive engineer drinking water further said “Dependency of this medical college on the nearby Kacharwa dam is a stop-gap arrangement since this dam has no inlet to water rather water is mined from here the result of which is its water gets turbid and dirt and dust begin to come in the piped water.”
Gupta said there is a raw water pump station but for potable water, the drinking water officials carry on treatment of water with bleaching powder and alum.
The principal of the Medinirai Medical College Dr Kamender Prasad has his own tale of sorrow.
He told this correspondent “Deep boring requires money. The medical college does not have that much funds for it.”
His office suggested that as a principal he can utilise the funds available with the college which would be adjusted later on. Dr Kamender Prasad looks shaky about the diversion of funds.
The issue with the medical college here is not one to be discussed in any perfunctory manner but a serious brainstorming is required where medical college officials should sit and discuss with the municipal corporation officials, drinking water and sanitation department and electricity department.
