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While rising coronavirus cases in Maharashtra have wreaked havoc in the state, 86 students of the RN Cooper hospital have written to the principal asking to relieve them of COVID-19 duties. They have put themselves in self-quarantine against the management’s permission after a few of them got exposed to corona positive patients in different wards
A student nurse alleged:
Apart from this issue the students have even complained to the principal and the dean about the lack of safety gear while they are put on COVID-19 duties. The students in their letters have mentioned that they would want to withdraw from the duties as they are forced to work without any safety measures and gears as basic as an N-95 mask.
Another medical student alleged:
On the other hand Dr Pinakin Gujjar, Dean of RN Cooper hospital, refuted the claims saying that asymptomatic students were not tested but six of them who had symptoms were tested.
He said, “ Everyone is scared and doesn’t want to work. I have permitted them to be in self-quarantine and they can resume their duties after the period is over. I personally had a meeting with them and assured them that everything is being taken care of and there is nothing to worry about. Repeated tests are not going to yield any proper results if the patient is not infected. There is no need to make a huge issue out of it but the students don’t seem to understand.”
A medical student of the RN Cooper hospital appealed, “Please consider us as a part of the healthcare system. Even students are a part of the hospital as we are working here.”
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