Youth attempts to end life in police office
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M. Suresh Kumar, 25, who went to the District Police Office to lodge a complaint of assault, was found lying unconscious here on Friday.
Police said the youth from Karaikulam near Kariapatti was in love with a girl. He complained that her relatives had assaulted him. Even as he was asked to wait to hand over his complaint to the officials, he fainted. He was rushed to Virudhunagar Government Medical College Hospital where he had reportedly confessed to have consumed poison.
Madurai Meanwhile, in a different case reported in Madurai, a 15-year-old girl, was found dead in her house in Villur near Kallikudi on Thursday.
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300 more beds in Virudhunagar
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Ministers Thangam Thennarasu and K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran handing over appointment order to a temporarily recruited medical officer in Virudhunagar on Thurssday.
There will be 300 more beds in hospitals for treatment of COVID-19 patients in Virudhunagar district.
The decision came following a review meeting between officials of various departments and Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran and Minister for Industries Thangam Thennarasu here on Thursday.
The Ministers said the district had 1,420 beds in government and private hospitals to treat positive patients. Besides, COVID cares centres were also set up to treat asymptomatic patients.
A better burns ward in Sivakasi, need of the hour
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A constant complaint has been that critically injured workers die on the way while being taken from here to Government Rajaji Hospital or private hospitals in distant Madurai.
The State government finally brought in a Centre of Excellence for Burns Ward on Sivakasi GH premises in 2015 after 40 lives were lost in Muthalipatti fire accident in 2012.
“Even now, many injured workers are admitted to private hospitals in and around Sivakasi,” said Mr. Arjunan, district secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Though a building with air-conditioned facilities like operation theatre and post-operative ward were provided, the post of plastic surgeon that was sanctioned then has remained vacant for long.