Ahmedabad: Protest at BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital against Dr.
Kamlesh Upadhyay, Professor and Head of the Medical Department (HOD), for alleged “bad treatment” patched to MBBS students in the past year, entered the nineteenth day of the day.
The students now threaten to boycott the tasks of the patient’s department (OPD) from February 1.
But they will serve an emergency and attend covid patients, they said.
Protests increased on Sunday after students and Jda accused Dr.
Upadhyay threatened to “fail students if the protest was not withdrawn.” Medical students even raised their bets against the two member committees appointed by the state investigating this issue, accusing a partisan attitude.
They further accused Dr.
Upadhyay influenced the probe since he treats family members near Senior IAS officials at the Ministry of Health.
Last month, the Junior Doctor Association (JDA) from BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital had approached the Anti-Ragging College committee, looking for action against Dr.
Upadhyay.
“Dr.
Upadhyay insisted that he did not send internal signs of undergraduate students to Gujarat University (GU) and after a series of sit-out protests sent by the Department on January 24.
Why did Dr.
Upadhayay play with us career?” Meaning the President Jda Oman Prajapati.
JDA in his request also alleged that since Pandemic Dr.
Upadhyay had avoided Covid tasks and that even the height of the Hod of Medicine was challenged internally because he was only the fifth senior among other doctors who were eligible for posting.
“We feel that an investigation that does not side with an individual is like Dr.
Upadhyay, who uses such influence, is a distant possibility.
The lack of faith is what leads us all to start this protest,” said Prajapati.
JDA also claimed that Dr.
Upadhyay had threatened postgraduate medical students and scholars, told them that he would not send their mark to Gu if the regional beauty was not obeyed.
“How students who attend Covid patients are asked to visit other wards during the first, second and third waves? Does it not put other patients with the risk of infection,” asks Prajapati.