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Parents seek insurance for medico-wards in Azerbaijan

By K.T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI, FEB.12. Parents of 19 students from Tamil Nadu, who are studying medicine in Azerbaijan, have moved the State Human Rights Commission here seeking steps to safeguard their wards' lives and provide them insurance cover.

Taking cognisance of the complaint, S. Sambandham, commission member, has issued notice to the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Tiruvannamalai district, where an educational trust sent the students abroad, calling for his report by March 1. The Commission will also write to the Human Rights Centre in Azerbaijan.

Ezhumalai of Vadapalani here and 18 others submitted that the person running the trust issued an advertisement in newspapers in June/July last saying students would be selected for MBBS studies in Russia. The parents were informed that they would have to pay annually Rs.1.17 lakhs, which included tuition and hostel fees, and Rs.1.07 lakhs towards service charge and salary for two wardens for five years. The advertiser secured admission for the students in a medical academy in Kirgystan.

But at the last minute, when they were about to leave from Delhi in October, the students were informed that as some of them did not get a visa, they would be sent to Azerbaijan, instead of to Kirgystan. As the parents could do little about the matter, the wards were sent to Azerbaijan. The students paid various amounts under different heads to a university there. When the parents met the advertiser at Tiruvannamalai, he did not respond properly.

In December, information was received that a medico, Nirmalkumar, died after he inhaled poisonous gas in a bathroom. It was only then did the parents realise that no insurance cover was provided to the students, except to the advertiser's son.

A complaint was lodged with the police and the parents also met the SP.

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