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The decease of a 19-year-old nursing pupil portion successful admittance for a surgical process astatine the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) successful Tiruchi connected Saturday (May 23, 2026) triggered a protestation by implicit 300 nursing students of the K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College, attached to the hospital.
A high-level enquiry committee, comprising doctors of the Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH), has been constituted to inquire into the “adverse aesculapian event” pertaining to the student.
According to infirmary sources, third-year nursing pupil Seethalakshmi, from Manakudipatti village, Pudukottai district, had sought attraction astatine the MGMGH for persistent headache. After tests, the occupation was diagnosed arsenic being caused by a deviated nasal septum, requiring surgery.
“The diligent was prepared for country connected May 22, but suffered a cardiac apprehension portion anaesthesia was being administered. She was kept nether reflection successful the Intensive Care Unit. Unfortunately, she passed distant owed to aesculapian complications the pursuing day. We volition stock the video and different documentation of the process arsenic per modular operating protocol, with the enquiry committee,” dean S. Kumaravel, told The Hindu.
In the meantime, nursing students blocked the roadworthy from 9 a.m. successful beforehand of the MGMGH entranceway arsenic they protested their colleague’s demise and alleged aesculapian negligence by the authorities.
S. Ramesh, Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, who was connected his archetypal sojourn to the metropolis aft assuming complaint arsenic Minister, District Collector V. Saravanan, and elder officials held talks with the students.
Inquiry sheet to sojourn hospital
In an bid issued connected Saturday, RGGGH dean, pursuing instructions from the Additional Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare and Director of Medical Education and Research, constituted the committee that volition sojourn K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College and behaviour an inquiry.
N. Basker, aesculapian superintendent, RGGGH, volition caput the committee, portion M. Bharathi Mohan, prof of ENT, P. Shanmugasundaram, prof of Anaesthesia, and N. Jayaprakash, prof of Medicine of RGGGH, are members of the committee, the bid said.
