Perfect co-coordination between health services, infra in TN: Guv

Perfect co-coordination between health services, infra in TN: Guv

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 21.12.2021

There is perfect cocoordination between health services and infrastructure in Tamil Nadu and the state is an example for the rest, Governor R N Ravi said, haling Stalin as a dynamic chief minister. Ravi, who shared the dais with Stalin for the 34th convocation of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University,also congraduated Tamil Nadu for containing the effect of pandemic.

He also praised the staterun medical university for identifying a vaccine candidate for Sars Cov 2. During his convocation address, he asked young graduates to hold on to five essential things — not to commercialise medical profession, develop the art of listening to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes, integrate traditional and modern medicine using evidencebased research, continue learning and working hard and stay healthy.

Earlier, Stalin in his convocation address urged medical graduates, including those from urban areas, to serve in the rural areas of the state. You should be recognised as people’s doctors, he told young medical graduates seated at the Silver Jubilee Auditorium on the university campus. “When you start working you know that regardless of sex, caste or any other factors, what you will see in front of you is life. You are the nation’s children,” he said asking them to be prepared to face challenges ahead.

The state he said will reopen 11 new medical colleges this academic year, he said. The department has launched a slew of programmes such as door-to-door delivery of medicine, insurance for accident victims, clinic for internet addiction and emergency and rehab centre for people with mental illness.

Health minister Ma Subramanian said at least one in every eight doctors in the country was from Tamil Nadu. “Our best doctors did not join medicine after clearing NEET,” he said. This is the last batch of students from the university, who joined the undergraduate medical programme without clearing medicine. The state’s bill against using NEET as sole criteria for admission is now awaiting governor’s nod.