Only 400 out of 4 thousand 436 students eligible for admission in PG with MD/MS of medical education will be able to study.
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The Medical Education Commission has published a 'matching' list of only government medical colleges for medical education (PG) studies at postgraduate level without including private medical colleges.
After the private medical college refused to give the salary of 8th level officers of the Nepal government to the MD/MS students, the commission published a notice on Thursday to set the priority of matching including only the government medical college.
The commission has published a notification for matching for a total of 400 seats including government medical colleges and some private hospitals. There is confusion over what will happen to the 700 reserved seats in private colleges. A total of 8,874 students appeared in the examination conducted by the commission for PG level from 26th to 28th. 4,436 people were eligible for admission. Out of that, 400 will be admitted now.
Vice President of the commission Prof. Dr. According to Anjani Kumar Jha, his name was removed from the matching after the private medical college owners said that they could not enroll students in the prescribed seats in writing. They cannot teach us in writing. Therefore, when the students asked not to give, we did not force it," he said. "That's why we published the notice without including the private ones." According to him, this year, some seats have also been added in government colleges. But if the private college does not take admission in PG then the education of hundreds of students will be affected.
President of Association of Private Medical and Dental Colleges of Nepal Dr. According to Gyanendra Karki, all the private medical colleges have withdrawn from PG because they are unable to enroll students and teach in the current situation. ``Taking tuition fees of Rs. 23 lakhs from the students and Rs. 48,000 per month as subsistence allowance and the fees to be paid to the concerned universities and the Nepal Medical Council, the total reaches Rs. 25 lakhs. We cannot spend that much amount," he said. "We are ready to give the PG students the subsistence allowance fixed by the government, but we had given the government an option. The government did not listen to us. The government should ensure that the money will be given to the students.'
Even though the commission asked private medical colleges to join the seat determination process with a letter guaranteeing that students will be given 48,000 rupees per month, the private colleges did not join the process. Then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is the chairman of the commission, instructed the commission to remove the condition and determine the seats. Also, in the meeting of the commission held in the first week of January, he assigned the responsibility of health minister Pradeep Paudel and education minister Vidya Bhattarai to settle the dispute regarding subsistence allowance.
On January 14, the minister decided to provide subsistence allowance to resident doctors at the rate of 25, 30 and 35,000 per month in the first, second and third year respectively. Resident doctors started a protest declaring the decision invalid. After the doctors went on strike boycotting non-emergency services, Commission Chairman and Prime Minister Oli again called an emergency meeting.
The meeting held on January 25 of the Medical Education Commission decided to give 48,000 per month subsistence allowance to resident doctors in private medical colleges. The resident doctors of the Government Medical College have been getting a subsistence allowance of Rs 48,700 per month equivalent to the eighth level. Private medical college operators are opposing the commission's decision.
President of Association of Private Medical and Dental Colleges of Nepal Dr. According to Karki, the Prime Minister held another meeting of the commission and said that the current situation has arisen because he did not hold the meeting after only promising to take a concrete decision on the alternative measures given by the private medical colleges.
