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Daltonganj, May 23: Medinirai Medical College and Hospital lacks even most of the basic amenities like an inverter to store electricity to be used when its supply goes off.
The medical college management parades of no funds for buying the inverters which is nothing but simply unbelievable.
There is no inverter in the Central Library of this medical college. It plunges into darkness once ‘Bijli Gayee’. Is this not a matter of shame? asked medicos of this college.
It happens every day. Studying in the Central Library is a matter of luck, not of habit, said the medicos.
Power supply is highly erratic
The power supply is highly erratic. Its non-availability hour is more than its availability hour. But there is no single day here when power is for 14 plus hours in 24 hours.
A senior faculty also buttressing the grievances of the students here said, “There is no inverter in the Central Library. Here power cuts are enormous. Medical students use cell phone light for reading here.”
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No inverter in 8 departments
This medical college has 8 departments like anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, pathology etc where too there is no inverter,” said sources.
HoD Dr Nikhil Nishant of the community medicine department on being asked said, “Our community medicine department is on the 4th floor. So is there the FMT (forensic medicine and toxicology) department. We don’t have any inverter.”
Any number of floors above the ground bears the brunt of the Sun and heat.
It is a very serious problem: Principal
Principal of the medical college Dr Kamender Prasad said, “There are no inverters from the Central Library to the other 8 departments. Power cuts are a rule here and no exception. It is a very serious problem.”
“The medical college has no funds to buy inverters. We are making efforts to buy inverters. We will write to the state health department to bail us out of this morass,” said Dr Kamender Prasad.
It is not that this medical college does have no inverter. It has. It is in the chamber of the principal and the administrative block attached to the principal!
The faculties, their departments and big of all medical students are made to languish for want of power backup.
The rest of the college from the central library to lecture theatres to labs, all are without any inverter.
Generator set consumes 70 to 80 litres per hour
There is also a story about a huge generator set. It ‘eats’ (read consumes) 70 to 80 litres of fuel for just one hour of total lighting here in this medical college.
The medical college uses this generator set with a great many reservations as its consuming 70 to 80 litres of fuel per hour is seen as a waste of money forgetting completely that it’s nothing in terms of minimum basic facility for the students and faculties.
