Safidon nursing institute ‘violates’ Covid regulations

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Tribune News Service

Hisar, April 25

The government nursing institute at Safidon town in Jind district is holding classes even as the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (PBDSUHS) in Rohtak has issued directions to conduct online lectures, in view of Covid-19 crisis.

According to the information, the institute has around 425 students, all girls. Students said they had been pleading with the authorities to allow them to go home as they were ready to join online classes. “We have submitted a collective request in writing to the principal of the institute, but the authorities are forcing us to stay in the hostel and attend offline classes,” a student said.

Dean, academic affairs, PBDSUHS, Rohtak, issued directions to all directors and principals of the PGIMS at Rohtak and other affiliated institutes on April 22 that the university had decided to conduct online classes for MBBS/ BDS/pharmacy/nursing/physiotherapy and other paramedical courses with immediate effect.

The students said nearly 30 girls at the institute had got infected in the past few days. The management allowed them to go home, while some had been quarantined at the hospital, they said.

Vikram, an administrative official of the institute, said it was the decision of the competent authority at the institute to conduct offline classes.