In the meeting with students at Vidhana Soudha Monday, the Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said that the Karnataka government will help 700 students to continue their studies who returned from the warzone in Ukraine. However, it was clarified by the Minister that the returned students won’t get officially into the colleges. Also, it was stated that no additional fee would be charged.
The students are grateful for the step taken by the Karnataka government. Meanwhile, Naveen S G’s father, the one who died in Ukraine on March 1 had proposed that they will donate their son’s body to the medical institution. Naveen was reported as the first Indian Casualty in the Russia-Ukraine war crisis.
“My son wanted to achieve in the medical field, but he could not. Now, let his body help other students,”- said Naveen’s father.
The students were sincerely concerned about losing a year of their studies and made many appeals to the government for some solution.
“Though the university is offering us online classes, there is no assurance about what will happen next as our teachers are attending the online sessions from bunkers. We request the authorities here to admit us into medical colleges in the country as we will not be able to go back to Ukraine in the near future,”- said a third-year Bogolomets National University in Kyiv medical student Anikha Merrin Thomas at Ernakulam Press Club.
