22-year-old TN MBBS student dies in China, family seeks help to bring body

Pudukottai: In an unfortunate incident, a 22-year-old medical student from Tamil Nadu's Pudukottai region studying medicine in China passed away due to an illness, following which the family members made a request to the State government to bring the body back.  

The medico, who has been studying medicine for the past five years in China, passed away on Sunday due to an illness. The deceased has been identified as S. Sheikh Abdulla of Bose Nagar in Pudukottai who was studying medicine in China since 2017 at the Qiqihar Medical University in northeast China's Heilongjiang province. 

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He had come back home and continued his studies online during the Covid pandemic. During the end of his course, he went back to do an internship given by the university and receive his certificates. However, due to the spread of the Omicron sub-variant BF-7, he was again quarantined after he went to China on December 11. 

He then fell ill and was admitted to a hospital attached to the university. After his family received information about him falling sick, they sought the intervention of the Pudukottai District Collector on December 26 to help him bring home so they could continue his treatment at home. Further, they had also requested the college authorities to allow him to continue his internship at college and practice medicine, as per a media report in the Hindu. 

However, on Sunday, the university informed the family members of Abdulla that he had failed to respond to treatment and passed away due to liver and kidney failure-related complications. The family members had already spent lakhs on his treatment, and the university asked them to pay more in order to send his body back. 

Due to the financial burden, they have asked the help of the state government to bring the body back so they could perform his final rites. The family of the deceased has also demanded compensation from the government. 

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