For Jithina, previous trials are simply gas to fireside up her future

Express News Service

ALAPPUZHA: When life knocks individuals down, repeatedly, some simply determine to bounce again, simply as shortly. After the trials and turmoil of the final one 12 months, Jithina is planning to return to her medical research on the Kyiv Medical University’s campus in Poland.

She had escaped war-torn Ukraine after a tortuous journey, together with hundreds of different Indian college students, and made it to her house in Cheppad, Kayamkulam on March 7, 2022. 

But Jithina was in for extra shock when she obtained information that her husband, Akhil, was being held captive by Houthi rebels in Yemen. After a number of parleys by Indian embassy officers with the fighters, he and the opposite hostages have been launched in April.  

“I will return to Poland by March 8, says Jithina, a fourth-year student. “The university has arranged clinical studies in Poland to complete our course. They have been holding online classes for the past few months, but clinical studies are a must. Some students are taking this path to complete their course, as changing universities midway creates confusion and could result in denial of approval by the Medical Council of India (MCI). However, many students, the majority from north India, have migrated to other universities, including in Russia, to continue their studies,” she provides. 

A seize of the report that appeared in TNIE
on March 8, 2022

“Studying at a foreign university has been financially taxing, and the Poland leg will only set us back further. The cost of acquiring a Polish visa and hostel charges will add to the expenditure. The entire cost of my five-year course could now exceed Rs 40 lakh,” she stated.

Akhil had additionally returned house after his launch from captivity. He is now planning to return to Dubai to renew his job. He labored as a deck cadet with a transport firm in UAE and the couple will each go away for his or her separate locations on March 8. 

“After the war began on February 24, we stayed in the bunker of the Kyiv University for five days. On the instructions of embassy officials, we started our train journey from Vokzalna to the Hungarian border on February 28 and reached Lviv, after standing for more than 15 hours at a stretch in the jam-packed train. We took another train from Uzhhorod, on the border with Hungary, and reached Budapest.  We boarded a flight arranged by the embassy from the Hungarian capital on March 5 and reached Delhi early the next day. The Kerala government had organised another plane, which took us to Kochi,” says Jithina, recounting her ordeal. 

Akhil and Jithina had been married for simply over 4 months when his ship was hijacked by the rebels on January 2 from the Red Sea on suspicion that it was carrying army provides for the Yemeni authorities. 

ALSO READ | Ring for spouse Jithina, Jambia for Akhil, Houthis’ farewell to Malayali captives

TNIE had reported the household ordeal on March 8, 2022, which introduced the problem to the eye of authorities and set the stage for negotiations that led to the discharge of 15 individuals, together with 5 Indians. 
We have lived by means of loads and we are going to use the expertise to construct our lives, says a decided Jithina. 

TNIE Impact

The report introduced the problem to the eye of authorities and set the stage for negotiations that led to the discharge of 15 hostages, together with 5 Indians

ALAPPUZHA: When life knocks individuals down, repeatedly, some simply determine to bounce again, simply as shortly. After the trials and turmoil of the final one 12 months, Jithina is planning to return to her medical research on the Kyiv Medical University’s campus in Poland.

She had escaped war-torn Ukraine after a tortuous journey, together with hundreds of different Indian college students, and made it to her house in Cheppad, Kayamkulam on March 7, 2022. 

But Jithina was in for extra shock when she obtained information that her husband, Akhil, was being held captive by Houthi rebels in Yemen. After a number of parleys by Indian embassy officers with the fighters, he and the opposite hostages have been launched in April.  

“I will return to Poland by March 8, says Jithina, a fourth-year student. “The university has arranged clinical studies in Poland to complete our course. They have been holding online classes for the past few months, but clinical studies are a must. Some students are taking this path to complete their course, as changing universities midway creates confusion and could result in denial of approval by the Medical Council of India (MCI). However, many students, the majority from north India, have migrated to other universities, including in Russia, to continue their studies,” she provides. 

A seize of the report that appeared in TNIE
on March 8, 2022“Studying at a foreign university has been financially taxing, and the Poland leg will only set us back further. The cost of acquiring a Polish visa and hostel charges will add to the expenditure. The entire cost of my five-year course could now exceed Rs 40 lakh,” she stated.

Akhil had additionally returned house after his launch from captivity. He is now planning to return to Dubai to renew his job. He labored as a deck cadet with a transport firm in UAE and the couple will each go away for his or her separate locations on March 8. 

“After the war began on February 24, we stayed in the bunker of the Kyiv University for five days. On the instructions of embassy officials, we started our train journey from Vokzalna to the Hungarian border on February 28 and reached Lviv, after standing for more than 15 hours at a stretch in the jam-packed train. We took another train from Uzhhorod, on the border with Hungary, and reached Budapest.  We boarded a flight arranged by the embassy from the Hungarian capital on March 5 and reached Delhi early the next day. The Kerala government had organised another plane, which took us to Kochi,” says Jithina, recounting her ordeal. 

Akhil and Jithina had been married for simply over 4 months when his ship was hijacked by the rebels on January 2 from the Red Sea on suspicion that it was carrying army provides for the Yemeni authorities. 

ALSO READ | Ring for spouse Jithina, Jambia for Akhil, Houthis’ farewell to Malayali captives

TNIE had reported the household ordeal on March 8, 2022, which introduced the problem to the eye of authorities and set the stage for negotiations that led to the discharge of 15 individuals, together with 5 Indians. 
We have lived by means of loads and we are going to use the expertise to construct our lives, says a decided Jithina. 

TNIE Impact

The report introduced the problem to the eye of authorities and set the stage for negotiations that led to the discharge of 15 hostages, together with 5 Indians