VIJAYAWADA: The first-year MBBS students and their parents have urged the state government to promote them to the second year due to improper conduct of classes and incompletion of syllabi due to the pandemic crisis.
A delegation of students and parents led by T. Srinivasa Vishwanatha called on NTR University of Health Sciences registrar Dr K. Sankar here on Saturday and submitted a memorandum seeking promotion to the second year.
They deplored that the classes for the first-year students could not be held properly due to the Covid-induced lockdown. They said the students were deprived of practical learning and later on, though online classes were started, they did not help the students as physical classes would. They lamented that the improper clinical exposure and lack of practicals adversely impacted the learning. Add to it, many students were infected by Coronavirus and remained in quarantine at home or outside. The students are now worried about taking the exams…