Lack of hostel facility hits MBBS students

OVER 60 first-year MBBS students at Government Medical College (GMC), Mahbubabad, are on tenterhooks over availability of accommodation as their final examinations are scheduled to start from September 2.

- AARTI KASHYAP @ Hyderabad

For the last 10 months, they have been temporarily housed in cramped conditions at the JNTU engineering college hostel, with up to 20 students sharing a single room, using bunker beds, and one washroom. Promises of a new, well-equipped hostel have not been fulfilled, leaving students in a state of uncertainty.

In early August, the engineering college authorities instructed GMC to vacate the hostel to make way for a fresh batch of engineering students. This has forced many first-year students to seek expensive private paying guest (PG) accommodations and rental rooms just days before their exams.