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State-run Teaching Hospital Goes On Strike
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 16, 2010: graduate students at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) have closed all services except for the emergency service alleging the Dean of Institute of Medicine (IOM) has leaked the question papers for money. So, the graduate students want the hospital administration postpone the examinations. However, the Dean of IOM has been determined to hold the examinations.
Similarly, undergraduate students at the Nepal Medical College at Jorpati in Kathmandu have closed the services demanding the administration pass six students failed in the examinations.
Patients have suffered from the closure of TUTH and Nepal Medical College. Some patients have come from the far away villages and have faced the closure of the medical services at these two teaching hospitals.
If the graduate students are not happy with the examination system at the TUTH they have an option to go somewhere rather than closing the services at the hospital and forcing the administration to come to their terms.
Similarly, the undergraduate students at the Nepal Medical College should go to some other medical college rather than closing the services at the hospital and attempting on forcing the hospital administration meeting their demands.
If the hospital administration bows to the demands of the students, a precedent of failed students forcing the administration to pass them will be set.
