One of the three toppers in the State medical rank list, V. Vignesh, son of a bus conductor Vadivelu of Vellachi Mandapam in Tiruvaiyaru, is aspiring to be a nephrologist.
“I have seen from close quarters the sufferings of those afflicted by kidney ailments. I lost an uncle of mine to kidney failure and it was then that I resolved to become a nephrologist one day,” said the boy who hails from Tiruvaiyaru in Thanjavur district.
Vignesh scored 497 and stood third in the State in the SSLC exam, and secured 1,184 marks in the Plus-Two exams. “I owe it to my Physics teacher Tamilselvan, among others who helped me reach the top,”' he says. Vignesh is one of the five students in the State who scored a centum in Physics. “I was expecting to top the State in my SSLC and Plus-Two exams. My current achievement has erased the pain of those losses,” Vignesh told The Hindu .
