MSF press for free EMS to students
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, February 12 2014:
In an attempt to provide sufficient medical requirements to the student community, Manipur Students' Federation (MSF) has today demanded the concern authority to provide free medical emergency facilities (EMS) in all government schools and colleges having not less than three hundred students.
The demand was enclosed through a memorandum which was submitted to the Education Minister, M.Okendro.
The students' body has urged him to provide at least one doctor and a nurse in all the government educational institutions operating in the state so that any medical emergencies can be tended to, without any delay inside the premises of the institutions.
Earlier in a press conference held at the MSF office located at Sega Road here yesterday, president of the students' body, Kh.
Saraj Uddin said that students often face with difficulties when they need medical help as they are prone to frequent accident through various physical activities inside the institution premises.
As such, the need of medical doctors and nurses are a necessity, he maintained.
The MSF president also said that the Out Patient Department (OPD) at both JNIMS and RIMS are outdated and very often the long line of queues to get admission tickets is a very difficult task, with the patients from far off places sometimes returning home without getting treated.
On the contrary, even if patients get admitted, lack of doctors and medical help has often made the patients return back home without getting the required treatment, Saraj maintained.
The concern authorities should hence, provide more doctors and helpers at the OPDs so that there are enough people to tend to the patients seeking admission.
The students' body also urged the doctors to prescribe medicines not on blank papers, but to direct the patients of their treatments through properly sealed letter heads which enclose the concerned doctors and medical officers.
It also maintained that the state government and concern authority should open up specific drug testing centres in the state so that the drugs and medicines prescribed by the doctors can be properly tested and verified.
It can be noted that in the past, there has been many cases of patients' health deterioration and no improvement seen through the treatment after taking the medicines of some doctors who had prescribed the medicines.
On the other hand, the MSF president said that the application forms for the state medical entrance test which is conducted every year should be made available in all the nine districts of the state as this would remove the inconveniences faced by students aspiring to appear in the examinations.