nagpur students and interns at the government medical college and hospital gmch have to put up at accommodations only slightly better than shanties strewn with filth all over its premises the hostels are bereft of most of the basic facilities like drinking water fans tube lights and mess garbage lies littered all across the floors with no sweeper for cleaning the hostel the drainage system of the lavatories is such that they are rendered useless as they are choking most of the days the interns who reside in these hostels have pointed out the deficiencies to the concerned authorities without any improvement in their living conditions we pooled in money and arranged for one cleaner to work in the hostel however the workload was a little too much for him and he refused to do the job with our limited resources we could only have hired one person so the hostel has remained without a regular cleaner since long said one of the interns many of the dormitories in the hostel do not have any furniture it becomes all the more inhabitable as there are very few tube lights in the hostel and we have to depend on 60 watt bulbs at most places said another hostelite even food is not readily available for these young medicos there is no mess or canteen near the hostel they have to go to the undergraduate hostels during meal times we have no problem with that all we want is some of our basic sanitation needs to be taken care of said the students the condition of the other hostels in the hospital is also equally bad some of the hostel buildings are in urgent need of repairs the last time a little touch up was done to a few rooms was in 2007 said a source from gmch hostel warden and superintendent of the hospital dr arun humne acknowledged that he knew the difficulties being faced by the interns we have sent a proposal for improving the conditions of the hostels which is process the students will have better accommodation facilities once that proposal gets through he saidinsufficiencies inadequate supply of water in all hostels most of the hostels do not have water filters or storage on every floor available water filters do not work properly drainage collapse with the drainage system not working properly the bathrooms and toilets are choked most times and are not in condition to be used lack of sanitation no sweeper in the hostel making the premises filthy clean drinking water not available manual water purifiers have been provided to most hostels which are not adequate to store the required amount of water less furniture in dining halls even the dining halls in some hostels do not have enough chairs mess facility irregular messes attached with some of the hostels are irregular forcing the students to depend on dabbawallahs