The 17th meeting of the Medical Education Commission held today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister and Chairman KP Sharma Oli discussed the issue of increasing the number of seats for foreign students studying in private medical colleges.

In the meeting of the Commission held at the Office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, Singha Darbar, a proposal was made to increase the number of foreign students to facilitate the implementation of the decision of the Commission to provide living allowance to resident doctors at the same level as the government. A proposal will be made about this in the soon meeting of the commission. So far, the medical college has managed to teach 10 percent of foreign students.

Before this, the 16th meeting of the commission on January 25, addressing the demand of the resident doctors (students) movement, decided that the private medical college should maintain a subsistence allowance of Rs 48,436 per month, equal to the government (eighth level).

Today's meeting of the commission, which has been working on the integrated regulation, monitoring, conduct of entrance exams, the number of student seats in educational institutions and the determination of tuition fees, has decided to increase the number of 209 seats at the postgraduate level. Similarly, the meeting passed the report of the working group on the study, teaching and capacity building of nursing education, while the meeting discussed the criteria for merging educational institutions and programs. In the