Bhubaneswar, Mar 6 : Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to facilitate continuance of studies of students, who have returned from Ukraine, in India’s medical colleges. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Naveen requested him to ensure that the students get to study in the country’s medical colleges from the stage where their studies in Ukraine have been disrupted on account of the war. Naveen said a large number of medical students from Odisha and other parts of the country had to return home in view of the situation in Ukraine. The disruption in their studies is likely to continue until the hostilities end and normally in versities in the East European nation are restored. The CM said it was an “unpredicted crisis” that has the potential of disrupting the careers of several thousand young men and women who have already gone through the trauma of being in a war zone. ”I would therefore request your intervention with the National Medical Commission and the Ministers concerned to enable and facilitate continuance of their studies in the medical colleges in India from the stage from which their studies in Ukraine have been disrupted on account of war” Naveen said. The Chief Minister assured the Prime Minister full support of the State Government for implementing a workable solution towards this purpose. BD