ludhiana if you are the athletic kinds take care not to be injured in college if you do you might have to wait sometime before help arrives most colleges in the city are devoid of first aid facilities on january 25 the death of a btech ii student of guru nanak dev engineering college niranjan kumar sparked allegations of lack of medical facilities in the college students staged a protest and gave authorities a 24hour deadline to provide proper medical facilities on campus gnde college media coordinator kamaljeet singh said they are taking steps to make medical assistance available to students on campus he said there is a dispensary on campus but the doctor comes for just two to three hours in the evening we have issued an advertisement for a permanent doctor who would be available in the dispensary permanently things are slightly better at ramgarhia girls college but far from perfect college principal narinder kaur sandhu said we have medical facilities in our college especially for students staying in the hostel and sportspersons we also have a tie up with nearest doctor who is available 24 hours in case of an emergency besides a medical facility room is also under construction however she did not have a convincing answer to the question of the nearest doctor available a hostel student of the same college said sometimes sportspersons get injured during practice sessions and they need immediate medical facilities a player was severely injured on a national holiday our warden took her to the nearest doctor college authorities dont take students health for granted at the international institute of fashion design medical facilities amount to a first aid kit in the office and a separate guest room for illdisposed students to rest said amardeep lall additional director of the institute at government college for girls earnest attempts have been made to make sure students get proper medical help when they need it college principal gurminder kaur said we have provided medical facilities to students and this has been mentioned in the college prospectus as well we have a tieup with the nearest doctor for serious cases