Well-Lit Campus, CCTVs: Government Advisory Amid Outrage Over Doctor Murder
NDTV
Well-lit corridors and campus, CCTV monitoring and adequate safety measures at OPD, wards and hostels are among the measures that the government body asked the medical colleges to adopt.
Amid a nationwide protest by doctors calling for better security measures in the hospital in the wake of the shocking rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, the National Medical Commission today shared an advisory to colleges for a "safe work environment".
Well-lit corridors and campus, CCTV monitoring and adequate safety measures at OPD, wards and hostels are among the measures that the government body asked the medical colleges to adopt.
The body, under the directions of Union Health Minister JP Nadda, asked all medical colleges to develop a policy that ensures "adequate safety measures at OPD, wards, casualty, hostels and other open areas in the campus and residential quarters. Corridors and campus should be well-lit in the evening for staff to walk safely from one place to another and all sensitive areas be covered by CCTV for monitoring."
