BJP Tamil Nadu president K. Annamalai said on Friday that the DMK’s government’s failure to apply for approval for new medical colleges before November 26 last year had led to the State losing the opportunity to create 900 medical seats and building medical colleges in six districts.
He said so in a statement, adding that this was after his party had made efforts with other parties within Tamil Nadu which resulted in National Medical Commission coming up with a policy of having 100 doctors per every one million people from 2025 onwards.
However, it did not file an application in these areas resulting into no new colleges yet again. This resulted in lack of generation of new applications for 900 seats across these six districts thereby causing enormous losses since there are no such institutions locally. Hence, those students from poor backgrounds and normal families who hoped to become doctors has their dreams shattered by the DMK’s which often shifts blame to central government instead of accepting its inability when would it stop blaming Central Government over its failure but accept lack of ability on its own.”
According to him, rather than establish state owned medical colleges, DMK’s was interested in private ones.
