Classes start for first year students in MMC
Amid protests against National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test across Tamil Nadu following suicide of medical aspirant S. Anitha, the inauguration of classes for first year MBBS students, who got seats through the recently-concluded counselling, began in Madurai Medical College on Monday along with other government colleges in the State.
Speaking at the function, D. Marudupandian, Dean in charge, asked the students not to feel like outsiders and approach senior professors any time for guidance.
Highlighting the history of the college and the outstanding list of its alumni, he wished the freshers to not only become successful doctors, but also good human beings.
Assuring that the campus would be ragging-free, students’ council members who spoke at the function said that the freshers could treat them as their own brothers and sisters.
A few parents of the fresh batch of students also spoke at the function. S. Indira Gandhi from Sivaganga district said that she was proud to see her daughter S. Akshaya join the same institution in which she was born. “I gave birth to twins. My delivery had complications and it was the GRH doctors who saved me. Since we were keen on making one of my daughters a doctor, Akshaya, a CBSE student, took another year after Plus Two to crack NEET,” she said.
The father of a State board student, who also took an extra year to crack NEET, said that they felt relieved after admitting him in the college after all the commotion over medical admissions in the past few months.
All the speeches made by MMC professors, senior students, and parents and students of the freshers’ batch at the inauguration were, however, expectedly void of any reference to Anitha’s death.
Many parents and students whom The Hindu approached to know their views on the girl’s suicide hesitated to comment on the matter.
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