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thread to document the continuous denial of social justice in medical education.
#MedicalAgraharas
#JusticeForDrPayal
#MedicalAgraharas
#JusticeForDrPayal
AIIMS has been the 'premier' casteist institution in the country.
Fuck off from this wing' - A message for SC/ST students in AIIMS. Courtesy : The Telegraph
Fuck off from this wing' - A message for SC/ST students in AIIMS. Courtesy : The Telegraph
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare constituted a 3 member Committee under Prof. Thorat to look into the complaints of caste based discrimination in AIIMS. The institute did not even accept the report let alone act on it.
Three years later, Dr. Balmukund Bharti, a final year student at AIIMS delhi, a dalit student from Bundelkhand, a topper of his school and a gold medalist was institutionally murdered.
"Abused, humiliated, harassed by professors, beaten up severely by his seniors in the name of ragging, completely alienated from the ‘mainstream’ campus life, all due to his Dalit background, Dr Bharti died a very painful and slow death" https://thedeathofmeritinindia.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/who-killed-dr-balmukund-bharti-in-aiims/
AIIMS, Delhi continued denying every allegations of caste-based discrimination in their institute and pushed around the 'mental heath' narrative. 11 years after Balmukund Bharti's death, 14 years after Prof. Thorat Committee's report, has anything changed?
Two years after Dr. Bharti's death, on the same day, Dr. Anil Meena, an adivasi student from Rajasthan, was institutionally murdered in AIIMS.
There are many many dalit, bahujan, adivasi students who were killed by the #MedicalAgraharas. Many student continues to face humiliation, abuse, discrimination which is so rampant in these colleges and there are no strong institutional mechanism to handle them.
The Medical Institutions have not implemented the Thorat Committee's report. Nor has IMA accepted the guidelines of UGC to establish Equal Opportunity Cells in every colleges to support the marginalised students.
Even when there are clear guidelines for grievances regarding ragging, we regularly come across the cases of ragging at medical colleges. Now just imagine what a cruel face of caste discrimination must be seen by Bahujan students in absence of any guidelines to deal with it
Payal Tadvi too could have been with all of us, if the college would have acted firmly on her complaints against the three doctors who continued to harass her on the basis of her adivasi identity.
Even after her tragic death, the Maharashtra Government failed to issue any strong guidelines to the medical colleges under its jurisdiction nor did the Maharashtra Medical Council took any firm decision.
Payal Tadvi's mother clearly says that had there been a single bahujan professor to support her daughter, her daughter would be with her. This shows the status of representation in medical institutions.
and they continue to deny our due representation. the denial of OBC reservation in AIQ of NEET is just one example. https://www.edexlive.com/news/2020/may/11/why-denial-of-obc-reservation-in-all-india-quota-for-medical-seats-is-a-social-injustice-11935.html
The social justice is not only inside these campuses but outside too, to gatekeep us from entering into these institutions. Remember Dr. Anitha and her fight against NEET? Remeber the betrayal that the state did? You better not forget that
There is an urgent need to powerfully demand the social justice in medical education. We deserve to be here and we deserve to be doctors. May all the bahujan students in these medical colleges come together and tell the savarnas that their merit is a bullshit.
