T.N. Health Minister assures steps to send back students pursuing medicine in Ukraine
The Hindu
Suggestions were made to accommodate students in colleges where similar curriculum is followed in other countries
“The Tamil Nadu government will initiate steps to send back students pursuing medicine in Ukraine to continue their education. I will highlight the issue when I meet the Union Health Minister soon,” said Minister for Health Ma. Subramanian in Madurai on Friday.
He said, suggestions were made to accommodate students – who were evacuated to India owing to war between Russia and Ukraine – in colleges where similar curriculum is followed in other countries .
The evacuated students from many private colleges and universities in Ukraine have been taking up their courses online since March. Following the announcements made by those medical institutions of resuming offline classes in September, the students have made representations to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.
Also read:Why T.N. students head to Ukraine to study medicine
Mr. Subramanian said that he will surely take up the issue at the Centre for the benefit of the students.
He was addressing mediapersons after inspecting the Government Homeopathy Medical College in Tirumangalam, near here, accompanied by Health Secretary P. Senthil Kumar, Directorate of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy, Director S. Ganesh, Madurai Collector S. Aneesh Shekhar and Madurai Medical College Dean A. Rathinavel.
He said that its students have been frequently petitioning about the poor condition of their college.
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