"Tamil Nadu needs medical research university"

Tamil Nadu needs a medical research university where doctors can focus on unexplored areas of preventive and diagnostic medicine, State Planning Commission Member P. Jagadeesan said.
At a seminar organised recently in Chennai by Comprehensive Medical Services India, Mr. Jagadeesan said better research facilities were required for medical scientists. In developed countries, hospitals would commission research in universities whenever new diseases cropped up, he said. Mr. Jagadeesan also called on voluntary organisations to urge the State Government to take up the manufacture of some medicinal drugs so that the public could obtain them cheaper. This was because private pharmaceutical manufacturing companies sold drugs at very high prices. Moses P. Manohar, Executive Trustee - Director, Comprehensive Medical Services India, said his organisation manufactured and supplied essential drugs (generic) to charitable hospitals at low cost. CMSI also supplies drugs to the State Government. Participants at the seminar included representatives from hospitals run by Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist charitable organisations.