Samaritan Doctors Coach Talented Underprivileged Medical Aspirants

B R Priyanka, a daughter of a textile showroom worker in Madurai could soon get MBBS admission in a government medical college in Tamil Nadu. She has cracked NEET, the mandatory entrance test for medical admission, scoring 414. 

Priyanka is one of the five lucky underprivileged students from the government run Avvai  School who have cracked NEET. They were handpicked and sponsored for  coaching by the 2002 batch of  doctors  from the Madurai Medical College. The medical aspirant, now pursuing IT at Anna University in Chennai  told tellmystory.in “I am so happy I was chosen for this. I was really bad in Chemistry but the coaching changed everything. I am just waiting for the counseling to begin”. 

“It all began with an idea to help underprivilleged children in some way last year”  that brought the   group of 150 doctors together says Dr N Prithviraj, the face of the this initiative and a  Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist with Vadamalayan Hospital. That was also the time the Tamil Nadu Government announced 7.5% reservation for government school students in medical admission and the alumni group made it their mission to help aspirants in this less fortunate category  become doctors.