The Hindu : Panel visits Siddha college

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Thursday, May 29, 2003

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Southern States - Tamil Nadu-Chennai

Panel visits Siddha college

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI MAY 28. Academics of the Arignar Anna Government Hospital of Indian Medicine and the Government Siddha Medical College here took advantage of a recent visit by the Union Human Resource Development Department to apprise it of several expansion needs for the institutions.

A 14-member delegation of the Parliament Standing Committee, HRDD, visited the two institutions on May 26 and 27 to assess their teaching and research activities.

Following inspections, college authorities convinced the committee to consider a sanction of Rs.1.5 crores for expanding the buildings and establishing an animal house in the Siddha College for search by postgraduate students, a release said today.

The academics also apprised them of the need to install new diagnostic equipment including ultra-scan and MRI scan, and for expansion of out-patient and in-patient facilities in the Arignar Anna Government Hospital of Indian Medicine.

The academics also requested the committee to send a team of Siddha experts to other countries to propagate the healing system, the release added.

The committee is expected to submit its observations and recommendations to the Centre.

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