The Hindu : Medicos to continue fast

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Friday, May 02, 2003

Southern States

Southern States - Tamil Nadu

Medicos to continue fast

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI MAY 1. Despite the government invitation for talks and the Madras High Court advice to the agitating medical and dental college students to go back to class, student leaders today decided to extend their relay fast until after talks were actually held.

The fast, originally planned as a three-day affair, will now continue so as to keep up the momentum of protest, the vice-president of the Tamil Nadu Medical and Dental Student's Association, D. Karal, said. The relay fast was to end tomorrow.

The students, however, welcomed the government announcement, and said they would withdraw the strike and return to class as soon as talks were held and a satisfactory solution arrived at. The Government has announced talks with the medicos on May 3.

As the Statewide protest against private colleges, suspension of stipend, and hike in tuition fees entered its ninth day today, government hospitals were strained to treat the inflow of patients — a fact the agitating students admitted.

Meanwhile, the Indian Medical Association in a statement requested the Government "to consider sympathetically the reasonable demands by the students," and to ``consider the future of the medical students and take decisions suitably to relieve their anxiety."

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