Punjab Govt decides to shift girl to boys hostel in KEMU
King Edward Medical University (KEMU) formerly known as King Edward Medical College KEMC is the oldest medical school in Pakistan
Whole health department is suffering because there is no health minsiter in punjab
King Edward Medical University Lahore administration has decided to shift girls to boys hostel .They claim its temporary for 8-12 months for girls hostel repairing.This decision lacks any vision by the KEMU admin.
Shifting of girls to Boys hostel is a worst option because
1-There are security risks.
Recently some unknown persons fired on post offie INSIDE the hostel . There are many incidents of mobile snatching on gum point near boys hostel
http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101672682&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20121118
http://dawn.com/2012/11/18/two-injured-by-robbers/
LAHORE, Nov 17: Robbers injured two citizens and looted cash and valuables worth Rs800,000 in five hits in the city on Saturday.
Three robbers entered the post office at Mayo Hospital and looted Rs70,000. They shot at and injured post office employee Abbas on resistance and fled. ( Please remember there is no post office inside mayo hospital. There is only one post office and thats inside boys hostel where govt planning to shifting girls)
2- Admin wants to shift girls to Broom Hostel which is situated on Macleod Road. Whole hostel is visible from specially its first floor from the shops in front .
3-KEMU Admin says its temporary for 8-12 months...If its temporary, why not they hire a building on rent? Actually they want to adjust girls permanently in Broom Hostel permanently
4-Alraedy 60 doctors are living in Broom hostel. they are being forced to vacate the hostel.
5-There is already over crowding in boys hostle. 2-3 students and doctors are living in one room . if girls are shifted in boys hostel , it will lead to more over crowding
6- Whole shifting process is done while all the annual professional exams are underway and thus compromising studnets's study. (only to avoid students opposition, they are targeting during exams)
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Alternative options which admin is not adapting
Since admin says its for 8-12 months , they can
1- Hire Ewing Hall ( FC college hostel , in front of Patiala Block). Its currently empty
2-Use Shehbaz Research Center Girls Hostel
3-Use Tower in Jilani as hostel
4-Use Mayo Musafirkhana or PIPO building as Girls Hostel
Students have made a forum to raise this issue. You can stay updated here
United Medical Forum - UMF
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http://lahoreworld.com/2012/11/20/drs-stages-protest-against-kemu-adminstration/
Drs stages protest against KEMU adminstration
Lahore: Scores of students of King Edward Medical university protested outside Lahore Press Club today, against illegal decision of shifting of girls in boys hotels. They were of the opinion that they will not allow the shifting of girls in boys hostel at any cost.http://lahoreworld.com/2012/11/20/drs-stages-protest-against-kemu-adminstration/
Drs stages protest against KEMU adminstration
They also said that the allotment of boys hostel to girls will not only give rise to many social problems but also is a security risk as a postman was shot down in the same hostel a few days ago. On the other hand, the shifting of boys to hall road hostel is also impossible as there are already three to four doctors residing in each room. This mid term allotment is not only against university rules but also will give rise to residence problems for the new comer students next year.
The students gave an ultimatum to university administration to take the decision back otherwise they will be forced to block the hall road. The protest was lead by Ali Arshad, Muhammad Atif, Adnan Basheer, Salman Farooq Dar, Shaban Chandio, Qasim Rana, Farhan Ashraf, Qudrat Ullah, Yasir Anwar and nabeel Akbar.
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-5-140901-Shifting-of-KEMU-girls-to-boy-hostels-resented
Shifting of KEMU girls to boy hostels resented
LAHORETHE Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan, has condemned the decision of King Edward Medical University pro-vice chancellor of shifting girl students to boys’ hostels.
According to a handout here on Saturday, YDA office-bearers Dr Rana Sohail, Dr Salman Kazmi, Dr Talha Sherwani, Dr Ghulam Qasim, Dr Murtaza Bloch, Dr Muhammad Khawar Khan, Dr Shahid Dreshik, Dr Waqas Gondal, Dr Khuda Bukhsh, Dr Asim, Dr Shams, Dr Muhammad Azhar and Dr Muhammad Amjad said that out of six blocks of boys’ hostels one was Broome Hostel McLeod Road which was being allocated for girls and 60 male doctors who were already living there were being forced to vacate the hostel.
Instead of getting the old block of girls’ hostel repaired, the university administration is getting it demolished and further aggravating the shortage of rooms for the girls.
They claimed that all the members of academic council, including senior professors, had opposed the decision.
Instead of using empty building of Shahbaz Research Centre as girls’ hostel, the university administration is forcing the girls to shift to boys’ Broome Hostel, they said.
The boys’ hostels are already short of space for boys and if this decision is implemented, the incoming new first year students will not be able to be accommodated in boys’ hostels due to shortage of space, they said.They said that mobile phones were snatched from male doctors walking from Hall Road to Mayo Hospital on daily basis, and who will be responsible for the safety of the girls under these circumstances? They demanded the Punjab chief minister and chief secretary to reverse this decision.
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Transfer of girls to boys’ hostel at KEMU opposed
LAHORE: Some 60 people including Mayo Hospital doctors and King Edward Medical University (KEMU) MBBS students living in the Broom Hostel have been asked to vacate their rooms so that girl students displaced by demolition of a hostel can be shifted there.
A KEMU official said The Express Tribune a girl hostel adjacent to KEMU building had to be demolished and built again. He said the girls had to be shifted to another location for sometime.
Doctors, however, have refused to vacate their premises.
Dr Naseer, one of the Mayo Hospital doctors living in Broom Hostel, said. “We have paid for a full year for our rooms. Legally, they cannot ask us to vacate our rooms in the middle of the year.”
“In any case, there are boys living in all other blocks of the hostel and there isn’t no separation between blocks,” he said.
He said the administration had given them verbal orders to vacate their rooms and they expected to receive notices.
He said, “If we vacate our rooms on the administration’s request then we will be ‘adjusted’ in already allotted rooms so that four or five doctors will be living in a room meant for one doctor or two students,” he said.
A student living in the hostel speaking on the condition of anonymity said, “Our professional examinations are near. If we are asked to shift in the middle of the examinations or before the exams, it will waste our time and might yield a poor result for us. This is the wrong time to do so.”
“If this is unavoidable [to the construct the new girls’ hostel], it should be started when exams are not near.”
A senior professor in the KEMU faculty on the condition of anonymity told The Tribune, “The issue was brought up in the Academic Council meeting and almost all the senior professors opposed it. However, the vice-chancellor was of the view that the old girls hostel should be demolished to construct a new one.”
“We raised the concern that there was a security issue if the girls had to live in a boys’ hostel…and at considerable distance from the university campus.”
“The girl students could be accommodated at the Shahbaz Research Centre which is unoccupied,” he added.
“Female students do not want accommodation at the boys’ hostel. Several have written applications and submitted them to their wardens but to no avail,” a female MBBS student said on the condition of anonymity.
The KEMU acting VC Dr Asad Ashraf and implementation committee head Professor Syed Awais were not available for comment.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 10th, 2012.
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