{"id":14426,"date":"2022-01-29T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T10:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=14426"},"modified":"2022-01-29T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T10:49:27","slug":"specially-abled-shamsiya-arfin-to-be-first-doctor-from-remote-merpanaikkadu-village-in-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/01\/29\/specially-abled-shamsiya-arfin-to-be-first-doctor-from-remote-merpanaikkadu-village-in-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Specially-abled Shamsiya Arfin to be First Doctor from Remote Merpanaikkadu Village in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsiya cleared the counselling on Friday and got admission to MBBS at the prestigious Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai, one of the oldest medical colleges in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old just like her father Muthalif is physically challenged and was in and out of hospitals during her childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Her fher Muthalif too had suffered a polio attack and is physically disabled.<\/p>\n<p>The medical aspirant while speaking to IANS said: &#8220;I had always dreamt of studying MBBS and I have cracked NEET and got into my dream course. My happiness is limitless. As a child, I was in and out of hospital due to physical issues and several people helped me then. I had always dreamt to become a doctor as I have seen how they serve humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A student of Merpanaikadu Government Higher Secondary school, Shamsiya said she had studied in Tamil medium, adding that she would not have reached this far without her teachers&#8217; help. Thisaigal centre, a NEET coaching centre that provides free coaching to Government school students helped her crack the examination.<\/p>\n<p>The centre even provided free bus services for Shamsiya to attend classes and according to teachers of the centre she always attended classes and were prompt in her studies.<\/p>\n<p>Shamsiya said: &#8220;I want to become a gynaecologist and I am thankful to all those who had helped me overcome my personal disabilities. My dreams have taken wings finally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamsiya cleared the counselling on Friday and got admission to MBBS at the prestigious Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai, one of the oldest medical colleges in the country. The 18-year-old just like her father Muthalif is physically challenged and was in and out of hospitals during her childhood. Her fher Muthalif too had suffered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14427,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions\/14427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}