Gaps in India's medical education exposed as students evacuate from Ukraine

Indian students leave an airport in Mumbai after an Air India flight carrying stranded Indian citizens from Ukraine landed in the city. PHOTO: REUTERS
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BANGALORE - Narrating her escape from Kharkiv city in Ukraine as though she could still hear shelling, fighter jets and people screaming, medical student Arulmozhi Ramesh is finally recovering from fever and fear at her home in Coimbatore in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The 22-year-old is relieved to be reunited with her worried parents, but also angry about the comments she hears in India.

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