Hyderabad: Osmania Medical College students are upset that the college’s physical director, Mr Sandeep Jadhav, was not with the students at the time of the accident. While the students had decided to stay back a day in Vijayawada after the sports meet to do some sight seeing, Mr Jadhav had left after the event got over on March 13.
Student Manisha Jain said, “All the arrangements were done by the students. There was no involvement on the part of the college apart from the director being present. How could the students be left on their own? There should have been a senior faculty with them.”
The driver was so rash that student C.H. Karthik called his father C.H. Somaiah before the accident. Mr Somaiah said, “My son received only minor injuries. He was very frightened due to the constant argument between the driver and the students. He said the driver was drunk and not listening to them.”
Mr Somaiah, who lives in Karimnagar, didn’t know how to get in touch with the principal. He says, “We didn’t know that these children were on their own. We expected the college to have some of their senior members with them.”
Like Karthik, many other students called their parents, sent WhatsApp messages to friends about the irrational behaviour of the driver.
Meanwhile, Telangana Government Doctors Association have demanded resignation of director of health and medical education Dr M. Ramani and the principal Dr D. Prabhakar. TGDA and TS Junior Doctors Association have also asked for ex-gratia to the family of the deceased and also a government job for one of the family members.
Vijayawada accident: Victim’s eyes donated
Bereaved by the death of final year MBBS student Pranay Raja Ram, his father Mr Macha Srinivasa Murthy called on the government and politicians to rein in negligent private bus operators in the state on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters, he said, “Who can bring my son back? Not the bus operators, politicians or the government. I request all politicians to take up the cause and ensure such incidents are not repeated.”
Mr Murthy also sought streamlining of the private bus sector. He also came forward to donate the eyes of his son. Mr Murthy and his wife were the first to reach the city and give consent for eye donation.Parents of the other three deceased reached the city in the afternoon by when harvesting was not technically possible.
