Karnataka - Bellary

Ayurvedic college lacks facilities

Staff Correspondent

BELLARY: The Government Taranath Ayurvedic College Hospital, one of the oldest in the State, stands testimony to utter neglect of the Government. The college is among the three in the State after Mysore and

Bangalore run by the Government, and is famous for its

"panchakarma" treatment. It is bogged by several problems ranging from shortage of teaching and paramedical staff at the college to unhygienic conditions at the hospital. The students do not have facilities to learn and the patients are not provided with basic amenities.

A stench greets the visitors to the college hospital and unhygienic condition can been throughout the State. The toilets/bathrooms and the rooms where the "panchakarma" treatment is given are not tidy. Despite these shortcomings and lack of facilities, nearly 150 patients in and around the district come to the hospital as outpatients every day and this was mainly because of the good treatment provided here.

Left with no alternative, the students have, time and again, been resorting to boycott of classes and stage demonstration in front of the college to protest against lack of facilities and amenities at the college hospital. Even on Friday, they staged a demonstration. Their attempts seemed to have been like a "cry in the wilderness" as the authorities concerned appear to have turned a deaf ear to the problem.

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