Student bodies demand resignation of Director, MS
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, September 26 2025: In the backdrop of the recent series of controversial deaths at RIMS, as many as six student bodies have demanded resignation of the RIMS Director and the Medical Superintendent on moral ground.

The six student bodies include AIMS, SUK, KSA, DESAM and MSF.

Speaking to media persons at the office of the Students Union of Kangleipak (SUK) at Wangkhei today, the student bodies' coordinator Ningthoujam Dhanakumar said that the recent unfortunate incidents were results of the carelessness and inefficiency of the RIMS authority.

Given the recent unfortunate incidents, there is a growing need for the public to keep a strict vigil on all hospitals and healthcare institutes.

As such, the six student bodies will start keeping a close watch on all healthcare institutes including RIMS, Dhanakumar said.

He demanded the authority concerned to bring out a detailed statement on the recent unfortunate deaths that took place at RIMS.

He said that there are concrete reports of Government doctors, nurses and staff working at private hospitals and clinics.

Reacting strongly to the claim made by the RIMS Medical Superintendent that no Government doctors work at private hospitals, Dhanakumar pointed out that people are witnesses to how a number of doctors are working at both Government and private hospitals.

He also asked the Government doctors who are also working at private hospitals to stop working at private hospitals.

Saying that the student bodies will also check whether all the facilities needed by students at medical institutes are provided or not, he appealed to the public to avoid violence at hospitals.

DESAM president Mayengbam Somorjit alleged that OPD consultation at RIMS is done in such a way that the patients are compelled to go to the private hospitals where the doctors are working.

Taking strong exception to the claim made by the RIMS Director that no RIMS doctor works at private hospital, Somorjit said that many RIMS doctors run around nearby clinics soon after registering themselves at the biometric attendance register of RIMS.

He further decried the way the RIMS Director tried to cover up such unethical practice of RIMS doctors.

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