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.
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