Naveen Patnaik urges PM Modi to help Indian medical students from Ukraine

Scores of Indian medical students who returned from Ukraine are looking at an uncertain future, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to help these students in continuing their studies.

Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, many Indian medical students have been evacuated from the troubled country Ukraine. Now, another challenge is how to accommodate them to the Indian medical colleges. The Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to facilitate the continuation of studies of these medical students.

In his letter to PM Modi, he highlighted that a large number of medical students from Odisha and other parts of the country have come back to India from Ukraine and disruption in their studies is likely to continue until normalcy prevails in Ukraine.

He said that this is an unprecedented crisis that has the potential of disrupting the careers and future of many young men and women who have already gone through the trauma of being in the war zone.

“I would, therefore, request for your urgent intervention with the National Medical Commission and the ministries concerned to enable and facilitate continuance of their studies in the medical colleges in India from the stage from which their studies in Ukraine have been disrupted on account of the war,” he said, as reported by Indian Express. 

IMA requests to accommodate students in Indian medical colleges

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had also written to Prime Minister Modi for his intervention to end the uncertainty about the future of Indian medical students whose studies have been disrupted due to the Russia and Ukraine war.

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