Dilapidated KMC hostel needs immediate treatment

Warangal: Around 200 students are forced to live in the dilapidated buildings of Kakatiya Medical College (KMC).

Located within the college campus at Warangal, students are accommodated in the New Men’s Hostel, Block 1 and 2. However, these rooms are in a dilapidated state, causing students to live in fear, especially as parts of the ceilings in some rooms have collapsed.
On Thursday, students boycotted classes and staged a protest demanding immediate action from the college authorities to provide alternative accommodation.
Students coming from outside areas studying medicine were initially accommodated in the hostel of the medical college with mess fees. However, despite the increase in the number of students in hostels every year, the college administration has failed to provide adequate infrastructure for studies.
Speaking to TNIE, a KMC first-year UG student, who did not want to be named, said, “Dairy farms are much better than hostel rooms. These rooms are also the center of many bacterial infections, with risks such as encountering poisonous snakes within the rooms and entry of street dogs into the premises.
The students allege that despite repeated appeals to KMC officials to address these issues and transfer them, no action has been taken. Additionally, the deteriorating condition of the campus roads is also posing further dangers.
The students allege that the concerned departments target them during lab sessions and internal examinations when they ask about the measures being taken to develop the campus.
Efforts to contact KMC principal Divwela Mohan Das on this issue went in vain.