After two medical colleges in the city sent more than 50 per cent of their students home because of acute water scarcity, A.J. Institute of Medical Sciences has asked some of its MBBS students to go home while A.J. Institute of Dental Sciences has declared a holiday from May 7.
According to sources, the holiday was declared for students who do not have any examinations this month. Students from the first and other terms of MBBS have been asked to leave for their native places. “We have explained to them the situation. We have asked them to report back to college at a later date that will be intimated by e-mail,” the official said.
The official said that apart from the water supplied by the Mangaluru City Corporation, the college has open wells and a few borewells. “We are facing difficulty in meeting the demand for water in our hostels as the supply was scarce. Hence, we did what other medical colleges in the area have already done,” he said. An official from A.J. Institute of Dental Sciences said that they had declared holiday for all the BDS students. While holiday for second and fourth year students was declared from Thursday, the first and third year students have it from Saturday. The postgraduate students of medical and dental streams would be staying back in the institute, sources in the two institutions said. As many as 400 MBBS students from second and third year batches of Kasturba Medical College were asked to go home as its hostels were partially shut down till May 15. The Father Muller Medical College has sent back nearly about 75 percent of boarders.
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