The State government will take all measures to provide the best treatment to the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple’s 24-year-old elephant Parvathi, who is suffering from an eye ailment, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Minister P.K. Sekar Babu said on Friday.
He was addressing mediapersons, with Finance Minister P.T.R.P. Thiaga Rajan and Commercial Taxes and Registration Minister P. Moorthy, after reviewing the health of the elephant.
“The government will bring in the best doctors and medicines for treating Parvathi, even if it means they have to be outsourced from other countries or States,” said Mr. Babu.
The Minister said the elephant had an ailment in her left eye last year. For the past year, the professor providing treatment to the elephant was unable to continue it owing to the pandemic. “In the last year, the Finance Minister [as an MLA] also raised this issue in the Assembly. He strictly monitored the health of the elephant during the whole time,”…