Andra minister gets root canal done in Singapore for Rs 2.88 lakh
Hyderabad, August 24: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu wants to make the state a medical hub where foreigners would come for treatment, but at the same time, his own minister is going abroad to get an expensive treatment done.
Mocking austerity, Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu flew to Singapore to get root canal treatment done at the cost of Rs 2.88 lakh.The shocking part is that Ramakrishnudu got the bill reimbursed from the state government. The minister reported having got the root canal treatment done at Azure Dental, 22th Sixth Avenue, Singapore, on April 12 this year.
The amount was reimbursed by Dr NTR Vaidya Seva Trust, the Andhra Pradesh’s health wing, on August 23.General Administration Department (GAD) secretary Srikanth Nagulapalli issued a Government Order No 1844 releasing the medical claim of Rs 2,88,823. Interestingly, Andhra Pradesh, of late, raised Rs 2,000 crore through bonds at 10.38 per cent interest and had also offered an e-brick option for citizens to sponsor a brick for building the capital.Read the order by the Government of Andhra Pradesh:
Also, the state has been asking the Centre to release funds as vowed in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act after the bifurcation of the state. At a time, when the state is requesting for funds, why is it bearing the cost for medical bills of the minister’s toothache problem?
Flaying the government, people on the social media are wondering if a root canal treatment is not available in Amravati or the entire Andhra Pradesh.
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Odisha: Medical College expels 5 MBBS students from hostel for ragging juniors
Berhampur (Odisha), Nov 2: Five MBBS fourth-year students of government-run MKCG Medical College here were expelled from the hostel for allegedly ragging juniors, an official said on Saturday.
Earlier the five students have been rusticated from the campus for six months. The punishment was imposed as per the decision of the anti-ragging committee meeting held on Wednesday, the official said.
"The anti-ragging committee has taken such a hard decision to arrest further occurrence of ragging incidents in the medical college campus," said SP (Berhampur) Sarvan Vivek M, who is one of the members of the anti-ragging committee of the college.
Suchitra Dash, in-charge Dean of the college, however, declined to comment on the development.
The SP said they were also investigating separately against these students based on the FIR lodged. The statement of the students have been recorded by the police on Friday, he said.
While one second-year MBBS student has given a written complaint to the college authorities alleging ragging by senior students, three other complaints of ragging were lodged by parents of the students with the National Medical Council (NMC).
The NMC had directed the college authorities to inquire into the allegations and take action against the students.
After receiving the complaints from the NMC, the anti-ragging committee of the medical college inquired into the matter.
In February this year, the medical college authorities had suspended two fourth-year MBBS students for two months for ragging a second-year student.
