Counselling must for all medicos

Stress management and psychological counselling is required for medical students, experts said, as the suicide of Osmania Medical college post graduate student Dr B. Shravani sent shockwaves in the college and hospital.

Senior doctors said that she was always very happy and there were no signs of any mood swings or depression in her. When she called her professors in Osmania General Hospital for leave it was a very normal call and did not arouse any suspicion. In the evening they were shocked to learn that she had committed suicide.

Dr P. Naik, a senior doctor at the Osmania General Hospital said, "We are shocked that she didn't come forward and confide in any of the seniors. There is an induction ceremony at the beginning of the term but that deals mostly with introduction to senior professors