Taking a serious note of the tragic incident of Dr. Preethi’s suicide, the Raj Bhavan under the instructions of Hon’ble Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, has written a letter to Vice Chancellor of the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences.
The letter termed the death of Dr. Preethi as terrible and needs a thorough inquiry from all possible angles to find out the truth.
The Governor’s office has also called for a detailed report on the Standard Operating Procedures in place to deal with such incidents of harassment and ragging in the health sciences university.
The letter also enquired about the SOP manuals in place to deal with the duty hours of the medicos and the Assistant Professors and the establishing and functioning of the CC cameras at the medical colleges and hospitals.
The issues like functioning of the Grievance Redress Cell, addressing the concerns of the victims, evaluation of the feedback from the medicos and their working conditions were also highlighted in the letter from the Raj Bhavan.
The letter also mentioned about losing of precious time in shifting of the victim to the NIMS Hospital, it had suggested instead the super specialty experts and required advanced medical equipment should have been moved to the MGM Hospital so as to give the best possible treatment to Dr. Preethi.
The letter also called for a report on the anti-ragging measures and mechanism in place under the control of the vice chancellor of the university.
Hon’ble Governor called for the strict implementation of the anti-ragging and anti-harassment laws in the medical colleges with special focus on protecting the students, especially the women medicos.
It had also suggested the strengthening of the grievance redressal mechanism and creation of student counselling cell headed by the HoD of the Psychiatry wing in each medical college.
The letter mentioned that the Hon’ble Governor directed the Vice Chancellor to create better awareness among the medicos and the faculty and effective strategies to prevent any such unfortunate incident in future.
The Governor called for a thorough inquiry to punish the culprits, while paying her homage to the victim Dr. Preethi.
