Telangana: Security Tightened at Rims for Medicos’ Safety

Adilabad: The Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here was put under full surveillance of police and CCTV cameras to ensure safety and security of medicos and staff working there round the clock, especially during night.

Police vehicles will patrol the slum areas adjacent to the RIMS campus at night and restrict the entry of miscreants into the campus. Police surveillance will also give safety and security to patients and their attendants. Nearly 600 medicos and trainee doctors stay at RIMS, Adilabad.

Shops selling liquor in front of RIMS and near its campus will be closed by 10 pm to avoid untoward incidents. Additional CCTV cameras were installed to cover the movement of people from all angles.

The tight police surveillance followed a memorandum by doctors to Superintendent Gause Alam requesting him to step up security for them in the wake of the incident of rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata medical.

A police outpost is being maintained in shifts with three constables each at RIMS and police vehicles will be stationed on the campus when they are free. The district police will train the members of the private security agency guarding the RIMS in mob control.

Gause Alam told the medicos to first try to protect themselves immediately when somebody attacks them by moving to a safer place, locking themselves in a safe place and calling the police or dial 100.

He said police and security guards would reach them within no time and protect them from unwanted incidents. During his interaction, Gause Alam explained to medicos about anti-ragging laws and about cyber crime which is on the rise.

K. Rajender of Adilabad town said that the bushes in the RIMS campus should be cleared.