42 prisoners of Bhopal Central Jail are undergoing paramedical courses!

Bhopal, July 10: We have heard many times that in jails of India, prisoners are given several works for their earnings and also with an aim to give them some kind of activity, but have you heard that prisoners undergoing paramedical courses? If not then here is an example.

 

In Madhya Pradesh, in a first of its kind initiative for any jail, 42 prisoners of Bhopal Central Jail are undergoing paramedical courses.

Many of them are serving life sentences for murders. Prisoners are being taught by the outside experts in classrooms inside the jail premises.

"Forty-two prisoners, including four women inmates, are taking a 3-month paramedical course which started on June 1. I haven't ever heard of prisoners doing this course in any other jail in India," Bhopal Central Jail superintendent Dinesh Nargava said.

He said that, as part of the paramedical course being conducted for free by Bhopal-based People's University, the 42 prisoners were being trained to dress wounds and administer intravenous therapies among other life-saving measures.

"Most of these trainees are murder convicts serving life imprisonment. Only those who had cleared Class X, had served at least five years of their sentence and had shown good behavior in jail were chosen for the course," he informed.

The group of 42 convicts attend classes two times a week and get practical training on the other days under the supervision of Dr Premendra Sharma of the Bhopal Central Jail Hospital, Nargava said.