Telangana: A woman postgraduate medical student continues to be critical after attempting suicide in Telangana on Wednesday. As per reports, the victim's family has alleged a senior doctor of harassing the medico from Warangal. The State government has assured a thorough probe into the incident.
Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan visited the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences to inquire about the condition of the student.
The student's condition remains critical
The student was given advanced treatment following multi-organ failure.
"In view of the continued deterioration of cardiac and pulmonary function ECMO was initiated and CRRT was initiated to support the kidney function," the hospital said in a bulletin.
The student's condition remains critical and all efforts are being made to maintain her vital functions under the close supervision of a multi-disciplinary team of specialist doctors, it said.
Thorough inquiry to be conducted
The Governor, a medical doctor by profession, visited the student and wished her a speedy recovery.
"The probe should be in all directions," she said.
Meanwhile, State Health Minister T Harish Rao said the government would conduct a thorough inquiry into the incident and take steps against those responsible for the PG student's alleged suicide bid.
The Minister spoke to the parents of the student, an official release said.
Harish Rao, who directed the doctors to ensure advanced medical care to the student, was closely monitoring her condition by speaking to them, it said. A health official said the student and her senior who is facing an allegation of harassing her were counselled a few days ago and that it was not a case of ragging.
ABVP activists hold protest
The woman student's father said he had complained to the police after she expressed her anguish to him. ABVP activists held a protest in Warangal "seeking justice" for the woman student.
The first-year postgraduate medical student allegedly attempted suicide at a state-run hospital in Warangal district on Wednesday reportedly after being harassed by a second-year student in the same college, a male doctor, police had said.
The woman, who was on duty at the hospital, was found unconscious by the staff and doctors and given initial treatment there. She is suspected to have resorted to the act either by administering some drug orally or intravenous means, police said.
(Wth inputs from PTI)
