Pointing to the modern facilities provided at the government hospitals, he said, “We also provide health insurance and schemes like Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam (Healthcare at the doorstep) but, it is difficult to provide all the services and facilities through the government hospitals to a large population like us.”

Chief Minister Stalin said that the role of the private hospitals in the health sector is also important. “I request to make the cost of the health facilities provided by the private should be affordable for the poor people,” he said, adding that both the education and the health sectors fall under the category of service and it should continue to be so.

“We have globally renowned doctors in the state. Chennai is known as the medical capital,” he added.

Stalin said that he was happy to inaugurate the conference organised by Dr Mohan Kameshwaran, a renowned ENT specialist entirely in Tamil. “Let us develop science in Tamil,” he said. He said that his government recently released medical books translated in Tamil. “We have also taken steps to teach all the vocational courses in Tamil and steps have been taken to translate the books in Tamil,” he added.