VIRUDHUNAGAR
Officials of Health Department on Thursday sealed three private institutions that were offering nursing training without any proper approval in Virudhunagar district.
Two of the institutions were located in Srivilliputtur and one was in Sattur.
Joint Directors of Health Services Elangovan (Tirunelveli) and R. Manoharan (Virudhunagar) conducted surprise checks at the institutions and sealed them in the presence of revenue and police officials.
Armed with a Madras High Court order to conduct a survey of fake nursing institutions that were fleecing rural students, the officials had on Wednesday sealed three institutions in Aruppukottai.
“The origin of the case was related to an institute in Sankarankoil. The court had ordered authorities concerned to find out the institutions run by one Marimuthu, and subsequently the raids have been conducted in Virudhunagar district,” Dr. Manoharan said.
Stating that these paramedical colleges did not have any approval from the Director of Medical Education, Health Department or Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council, Dr. Manoharan said the institutions were collecting huge money from the students making use of their ignorance.
“These students were sent to some hospitals to work for ‘practical training’. The salary paid by the hospitals were pocketed by those running the institutions. At the end of the one-year or two-year course, the institutions gave them some fake certificates that could not be used by the candidates to register themselves in employment offices to become eligible for jobs in government hospitals,” he said.
Such institutions were rampant in many districts, and the survey of such institutions was under way. Action would continue against them, he added.
