Indian
Express: Kottayam: Saturday, 24 January 2015.
In the wake
of rampant complaints of victimisation and grave negligence in PG exams, Kerala
University of Health Science (KUHS) has re-announced the result of a student,
who exposed the negligence behind his failure.
Dr Eldy
Pereira, a junior resident at Government Medical College, Kozhikode, who
complained of negligence behind his failure in the practical examinations of
the MD exam held in May 2013, has been declared as ‘passed’ by university
authorities.
Finally, he
succeeded in the two-year-long battle for justice, when he received the
provisional certificate for ‘MS Degree in General Surgery’ from the university,
the other day. Earlier, ‘Express’ had reported about victimisation allegations
raised by PG medicos, including Dr Pereira’s complaint that he was declared
failed though, he secured pass marks in the practical exams. Pereira, who belonged to 2010 admission
batch, completed his course by May 2013.
Following his complaint, a board meeting of the Students Grievance
Redressal Committee, held on October 2014, had directed the Controller of
Examinations to verify and recalculate the marks of Dr Pereira and declare the
results accordingly. Owing to the strong recommendation by the committee, the
university conducted re-totalling of his marks, as a result of which he passed
the course with a second class. In the
meantime, KUHS has shelved two more complaints, which are somewhat similar
cases. The complainants were Dr Arun Kumar, junior resident of GMC, Thrissur,
who failed in the final year examination and Dr Lee Xavier, MD general
medicine, GMC, Thiruvananthapuram (both of 2011 batch and appeared for exams
held in May-June 2014). While Arun received a reply to his RTI query that his
marks sheet was missing, the chairman of the grievance committee wrote to the
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the university that he “suspects some conspiracy had
occurred in the practical examination results” of Dr Lee Xavier.
Stringent
Protests
Functionaries
of the Kerala Medical Postgraduates’ Association (KMPGA), who welcomed the
decision taken by KUHS in the case of Dr Pereira, have warned that stringent
protests would be organised if the authorities continue to ignore other
complaints and take inordinate delay settling down the issue. “We welcome the favourable decision taken by
the authorities in the case of Pereira. However, the university has been
delaying the decisions on the other two complainants, which cannot be taken for
granted,” said Dr Jinesh P S, the former spokesperson and state executive
committee member of KMPGA.
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