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AIIMS allows visually handicapped student to sit for exam
Acting on a directive by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has allowed a medical student, who lost his eye-sight due to a disease, to sit for his final MBBS examination.
Acting on a directive by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has allowed a medical student, who lost his eye-sight due to a disease, to sit for his final MBBS examination.
Upon the intervention of NHRC, AIIMS has agreed to allow and facilitate a visually handicapped medical student Anka Toppo to appear for MBBS final examination, an NHRC release said on Wednesday.
Toppo was denied permission for appearance in the final professional examination after he lost his sight due to Eale's disease.
Appreciating the efforts of AIIMS director P K Dave and his colleagues, the commission also said the Medical Council of India (MCI) should make available same facility in other medical institutions of the country as well. Toppo had approached the commission after he was allegedly denied permission for appearance in the final examination in May 2001 for want of approval of guidelines from the MCI as his was the first such case of this kind, the release said.
He had also alleged that he is being harassed and discriminated against as he is from a tribal community and his blindness is being used to achieve this.
According to the complaint, Toppo was admitted to the premier institute in 1989 against the reserved seat for schedule tribes. But he could not sit for the final year exams as he had developed Eale's disease. Bureau Report
Toppo was denied permission for appearance in the final professional examination after he lost his sight due to Eale's disease.
Appreciating the efforts of AIIMS director P K Dave and his colleagues, the commission also said the Medical Council of India (MCI) should make available same facility in other medical institutions of the country as well. Toppo had approached the commission after he was allegedly denied permission for appearance in the final examination in May 2001 for want of approval of guidelines from the MCI as his was the first such case of this kind, the release said.
He had also alleged that he is being harassed and discriminated against as he is from a tribal community and his blindness is being used to achieve this.
According to the complaint, Toppo was admitted to the premier institute in 1989 against the reserved seat for schedule tribes. But he could not sit for the final year exams as he had developed Eale's disease. Bureau Report