Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Apr 29: Caught in a bind, two KMC students who are stranded in Malaysia due to coronavirus-related lockdown, have approached the government and people's representatives through video to help them to return to India.

Naveen Mallya and Mahima Gupta, students of Kasturba Medical College here, had left for Malaysia on March 12 for completing a month's internship programme at the university's college at Nilai there. As lockdown was announced in Malaysia from March 17, they could neither do their internship nor return to India. Facing lot of problems, they have, through a video clip, requested the government and people's representatives here to see that they are brought back.

The students said that KMC Hospital has furnished requisite information to the department of foreign affairs of the central government and that they too from, their end, have been trying to return to India. But they lament the fact that no suitable arrangement has been made so far for their return.

In the past, state health minster B Sriramulu, when his attention was drawn to the plight of these students, had said that he would do something if the students send details to his personal email. The student said that have sent their details by email to Sriramulu but are yet to get any response.