Jayalalithaa congratulates Dr Shanta
Congratulating eminent cancer specialist Dr V Shanta for being chosen for the prestigious Padma Vibushan, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said the award recognised her “dedicated and selfless service.”
By : migrator
Update: 2016-01-27 17:22 GMT
Chennai
“This richly deserved award appropriately recognises the decades of dedicated and selfless service that you have rendered to the cause of preventing and curing cancer,” the CM said in a letter to Shanta, Chairperson, Adyar Cancer Institute. Several lakhs of patients and their families had benefited from Shanta’s service, Jayalalithaa said in the letter, which was released by the government. “You have been an institution builder, making the cancer institute in Chennai a nationally recognised organisation,” she said. “It is a matter of great happiness that the state government’s recommendation to confer the Padma Vibhushan on you has been accepted by the Centre,” she added.
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