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CPI(M) opposes decision to make JIPMER autonomous

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Says any change in administrative status will be hazardous

Pondicherry: The secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Pondicherry, V. Perumal, has said the party opposed the decision of the Centre to convert Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) into an autonomous institution.

In a release on Saturday, he said that right from day one JIPMER had been providing good health care facilities free of cost and the poor patients from different parts of the Union Territory and neighbouring States were benefited without facing any difficulty.

Students hailing from the Union Territory were also getting seats in the institution under a special reservation. Whenever recruitment was made for posts of Groups C and D categories, the youth belonging to Pondicherry were getting ample opportunities.

But the present decision would be injurious and detrimental to the poor in getting assured and free medical care. The decision of the Congress led United Progressive Alliance Government was against the welfare of the Pondicherry people.

Mr. Perumal said the Centre should withdraw its decision and ensure that the status quo should be maintained.

(JIPMER, which completed fifty years of its existence, has been under the direct administrative supervision of the Directorate General of Health Services in New Delhi). Mr. Perumal said that if JIPMER became autonomous there would be the risk of patients to pay for the health care services. He said that people were perplexed over the Union Health Ministry toying with the idea of disturbing JIPMER's status. Mr. Perumal called upon all political parties, associations of the Government staff, the trade unions and leaders to come together and save JIPMER against the Centre's hazardous decision.

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