SKUAST students boycott classes after colleague suffers “heart attack”

SKUAST students boycott classes after colleague suffers “heart attack”

SKUAST students boycott classes after colleague suffers “heart attack”

Srinagar, Oct 9 (KNS): Veterinarian students at SKUAST, Shuhama, Ganderbal, have boycotted their classes this morning following “heart attack” of their colleague in the varsity lawns on Thursday evening. The students are protesting in the campus against the university administration for failing to provide medical aid to the student and rushing him to hospital.
A student, Rouf Ahmad, told KNS over phone that Irfan Shah, a 4th year student of Veterinary Science, from Kishtwar, suffered heart attack in the university campus on Thursday evening and was rushed to the SKIMS, Soura, where he is in ICU for treatment.
Shah is a boarder in the varsity hostel.
Rouf lamented that the varsity administration did not provide any ambulance to the ailing student and hence they have started protests against the administration for “not caring” about the health and welfare of the students.
“No immediate medical facility was provided by the University administration to our colleague even though he was lying like a corpse. Not even ambulance was made available to him,” Ahmad complained.
He said that the administration was not moved by the fatal blow to their student. “Had we not acted on time, Shah would have lost his battle with life,” he said.
Agitated with the university’s “carelessness”, all the students have started protests in the university and have boycotted their classes, he said.
Refuting the claims of the agitating students about the failure of rushing the student to the hospital,
SKUAST Dean Veterinary Science Dr Sarfaraz told KNS that the driver of the ambulance was not immediately available to take the ailing student to a hospital. “It took some time to arrange another driver to shift the student to SKIMS,” he said, adding that the driver has been suspended from service.
About the current health status of the student, the Dean said that his condition is “alright” after treatment by doctors at SKIMS. But he said that the student had not suffered heart attack, though he has some “heart problem.” (KNS)
 

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