Vedi seeks removal of RCC director

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, SEPT. 11. The EMS Samskarika Vedi has demanded that the Chief Minister, Mr. A. K. Antony, take immediate action to clear the controversies clouding the Regional Cancer Centre.

The vedi chairman, Mr. V. S. Mathew, and the general secretary, Mr. S. S. Mukundesh, told presspersons here today that Mr. Antony as chairman of the centre should remove the director, Dr. Krishnan Nair, from the post as had permitted the foreign doctors to experiment with the banned drug on patients.

The committee appointed by the Central Government had said that the experiment was illegal. Still the director was trying to justify himself, they said.

The John Hopkins University had tried to open a research centre in the State when the LDF was in power but the CPI(M) politburo had stopped the move. The CPI(M) State leadership was remaining silent on the issue. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan, who reacts on all issues is remaining silent on the issue. The silence is deafening, they said.

Those who opposed the experiment have been described as persons trying to destroy the centre. This was an attempt to save the director. The vedi protested against mediapersons who had failed to treat the issue with due gravity.

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