Medicos lament lack of loo in Nizamia Tibbi Government College

HYDERABAD: Female students of Nizamia Tibbi Government College, one of the oldest medical colleges of the city have petitioned to the Government to provide washrooms in their college.  About 350 students including a large number of girls, study medicine at the institution that dates back to the Nizam era.  “There are no proper toilets for girls in the college. We are forced to go to the nearby girl’s hostel to use the facility”, complained the students.  The students allege that despite bringing this to the notice of the authorities  concerned several times,  the officials have not bothered to provide the facilities.

“Government is constructing washrooms in remote villages of the State. However, when it comes to our college we are deprived of toilets for boys and girls. Moreover, we do not have access to clean drinking water either though our institution is regarded as a premier one when it comes to Unani medicine”, said Afshan, a medical student of the college. Teaching faculty, laboratories, teaching aids and other facilities are also inadequate at the college. A hospital also functions alongside the college where the students are given practical exposure. “In fact, medicines dispensed to the patients are inadequate and there is a dearth of the doctors and para medics too”, pointed out another student.

About 1,000 outpatients visit the hospital every day and about 50 are admitted to the hospital for various ailments. The hospital has already been in the news over lack of facilities. Meanwhile, the foundation for a boy’s hostel and an outpatient block was laid long ago but work on both are yet to begin. Students from various districts of Telangana are enrolled in this college.