Chennai: More vaccines for Tamilnadu, speedy completion of AIIMS in Madurai, exemption for the State from NEET are among the key demands that State Health Minister Ma Subramanian will present to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya at Delhi today.
Subramanian left for New Delhi on Wednesday to put pressure on the Union health ministry for more vaccines for Tamilnadu.
The Minister said he would ask the health ministry to make up for the unequal distribution by increasing supply by another two crore doses.
‘Chief Minister MK Stalin has already written to the PM about the disproportionate vaccine allocation to TN and demanded 1 crore doses. I will be taking it up further with the Union Minister as part of the 13 demands we are set to make to the Union government,’ he added.
Subramanian will also put forth the issue of admission of students in 11 medical colleges in the State and press for its immediate commencement, exemption from NEET and also the need to immediately revive the Pasteur Institute in Coonoor as well as commence operations at the Integrated Vaccine Complex in Chengalpattu.
His Delhi visit comes days after Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan met top officials of the Centre and a day after Chief Minister M K Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking more vaccine does to Tamilnadu.
Stalin requested PMās intervention to ācorrect the imbalanceā in the Covid-19 vaccine allocation for Tamilnadu, and make a special allotment of one crore doses.