Minister urges medical graduates to participate in govt. service

Minister urges medical graduates to participate in govt. service

THE HINDU BUREAU DHARMAPURI  09.07.2025

Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma.Subramanian handed over degrees to 88 students graduating out of Dharmapuri Government Medical College on Monday.

Calling upon medical graduates to see the moment of passing out as just a beginning, he urged them to participate in government service.

At the convocation, Mr. Subramanian narrated about his visit to the remote hill hamlet of Maatupattikottai in Halahalli panchayat in Dharmapuri earlier that morning, where he assessed the reach of the State Government’s flagship schemes. The Minister said he had arranged for cochlear implant consultation for a 23-year-old hearing and speech impaired woman at the Stanely Medical College Hospital, and designated a doctor in-charge of taking the woman and her family to Chennai.

The Minister sharing nuggets of his visit to the hamlet of barely 50 families said, “the residents said no politician had ever visited that village. A nurse makes monthly visits under the Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme for the physiotherapy of a woman, who was fighting stroke.”

That was how the scheme touched lives, Mr. Subramanian said.

Mr. Subramanian also lauded Dharmapuri Government Medical College Hospital that has carried out 26 organ harvesting procedures, a unique feat for a non-metro government medical college hospital, on a par with those in Madurai and Coimbatore.

Similarly, the hospital also carried out 80 cochlear implants for children, a remarkable feat, the Minister added.