Blind Student Threatens To Commit Suicide Over Rejection In Medical College

Nirmal Singh 3C condemns the move initiated by the Medical Council of India by refuting a 19-year-old student taking admission in the college on the basis of his disability which is regarded as too severe to take up the MBBS course.

19-year-old medical student, Suresh, didn’t get an admission as the regulator cancelled his admission.

Following this disheartening news, the boy has completed shattered and threatened the authorities of committing suicide after the Medical Council of India cancelled his admission, for he cannot see beyond the distance of 8cm.

Nirmal Singh 3C calls it a serious problem from the side of the government, as they fail to rectify such special cases. It is basically a problem of neglect and delays that can be found every government. It is a huge flaw on the side of the government for first giving him the admission in 2016 by authorities in Karnataka who fail to rectify his condition which was explicitly scanned by the country’s medical regulator.

The heart broken boy finally jot down his anguish and pain on piece of paper, mentioning about his struggling in grabbing a competitive college seat, with a headline – Notice of Death – a suicide note written on August 28.

He further mentioned, despite 70 per cent of visual disability, he scored 86 per cent in Class 12 examination. It is not just the hard work that he has invested reaching to this medical college, but also the defied the monetary instability, as he had to sold out his ancestral property in order to pay the first year of fee during his initial period in life which coincided with the death of his parents.

Nirmal Singh 3C would like to mention that more than 778 private colleges students from Puducherry are being thrown out by the Medical Council of India.

“Out of severe depression, I have written to MCI to solve my problem. I have no option but to end my life if I don’t get a solution in my favour,” he told media.

He triumphed over his situations by winning a quota seat for students with disability after he scored a rank of 20,000 out of of 1.5 lakh in the state’s common entrance test (CET) last year. The Karnataka Examination body given him a seat in Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS).