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Indian health minister ordered to sign graduation certificates for medical students in 24 hours |
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08:17, September 04, 2007 |
An Indian court Monday ordered federal Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to sign within 24 hours graduation certificates of medical students of the country's top hospital, which he has refused to because of his months-long row with its Director.
"The Health Minister shall affix his signature on 49 certificates/degrees as well as other certificates of the students who need these to take admission for higher studies," Delhi's High Court judge S Ravinder Bhatt. "The minister shall sign the certificates within 24 hours."
The court also directed authorities of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to send all those certificates to the minister's office so that they could be sent to him by air to the southern city of Chennai, where he was on a visit.
Ramadoss' refusal to sign the certificates sparked a strike by hospital doctors last week.
The court's ruling came in response to a petition by some medical students who had passed their examination, but had not got certificates.
The minister has been embroiled in a row with AIIMS director P Venugopal and his supporters in the hospital.
Source: Xinhua
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