A leading private healthcare professional, who is a senior member of various healthcare associations, was recently asked by the government to stop writing in newspapers about nearly 20,000 medical students from Ukraine who had to return to India in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. This doctor, who operates a chain of hospitals in southern India, had been pleading with the Centre and states to adjust the students in private medical colleges in the country. The government, however, is in no mood to make any such exception for the students and informally asked the doctor to refrain from making pleas that were “unjustified”.
