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Rangasamy inaugurates meet on nursing education

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MEET: Health Minister E. Valsaraj (third from left) releases a souvenir at the two-day international conference on "Nursing Education" in Puducherry on Friday. Dr K. Lalitha (left), Additional Professor of NIMHANS, Bangalore, receives it.

Puducherry: Chief Minister N. Rangasamy has appealed to nurses to use the latest technological gadgets in rendering healthcare services to the poor.

Inaugurating a two-day international conference on "Nursing Education" on the theme "Identity and Alternative Vision in Nursing Education" organised by College of Nursing of the Mother Theresa Institute of Health Sciences here on Friday, Mr. Rangasamy said that the health care services were progressing amazingly in the Union Territory.

The Institute was started in 1990 and had made rapid strides. With the administration keen to promote education including professional courses, Puducherry was emerging as a leader in educational sector.

From primary to collegiate to professional education, all was available here to the students. The Government was also bearing full cost of fees the students were paying to professional colleges. He appealed to nurses and doctors to serve the poor patients with utmost patience and dedication.

He said that holding of an international conference itself was proof that the institute had become a centre of excellence.

Quality education

Health Minister E. Valsaraj, who presided and released a souvenir, said that the administration had started the Nursing College in keeping with the policy of the Centre. He said that the Government was zealously adhering to its stand that quality education should be made available to the students. Infrastructure development would never face any hurdles. He said that with Puducherry was having seven medical colleges and almost a year ago, the Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said at a function here that the Puducherry Government General Hospital was ahead of the JIPMER in rendering health care services.

Kidney transplant was being done here free of cost and the medicines needed during the post-surgery period were also distributed free. The Department of Cardiology would be equipped with sophisticated gadgets to diagnose and treat heart patients in the hospital in the next two weeks.

More students

He said that Nursing College would admit 20 more students in B.Sc Nursing course from the next academic year against 60 candidates admitted so far.

Dr. K. Lalitha, the Additional Professor of National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, received the first copy of the souvenir and referred to the duties and obligations of the nurses while rendering health care services to patients.

Secretary to Health Department T.M. Balakrishnan, Director of Health Services Dilip Kumar Baliga, Dean of the institute V. Balu and Principal of the college J. Rukumani spoke.

Around 450 delegates from different parts of the country and abroad participated in the deliberations.

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