Chennai, May 12: PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss today alleged that the ongoing stir by medical students, against privatisation of medical education, had severely affected health services in government hospitals and health centres in Tamil Nadu. "The government should accept the demands of the students without standing on false pride,” he said in a statement here and added that if the situation continued, the economically backward patients would be the biggest sufferers.
Referring to a fasting Coimbatore medical college student, who had developed a renal problem and was admitted to the ICU of a government Hosital, Ramadoss said that the government should pay him a compensation of Rs 50 lakh like the Rs nine lakh compensation paid recently by chief minister Jayalalithaa to a former student of Queen Mary's college, who became disabled after fall from the college building in 1991.
The students are agitating since the last 19 days.
Bureau Report