Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jun 15: In the backdrop of Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection that is drug-resistant having been found among a number of nursing students of the city-based Laxmi Memorial College of Nursing here, the management has given ten days holiday for all the nursing students. Most of the students have opted to return to their native places.
The college management reiterated that all the students who displayed symptoms of the infection have been subjected to tests, and medicines were dispensed to them.
After the nursing students went on agitation and media carried the news of MRSA infection, people had become worried as a section of the media confused MRSA with the deadly MERS. Over 40 students spread over second, third and fourth year of BSc (nursing) degree course had been affected by this infection. The students had protested in the college premises, aggrieved over the management's decision to assign them hospital duty instead of allowing them to go home as per their request.
District health and family welfare officer, Dr Ramakrishna Rao, said that the need to subject these students to detailed tests and the desirability of holding counselling sessions to educate them about MRSA will be discussed at the meeting being held on June 15, and a decision would be taken.