The Medical Education Commission has arbitrarily increased the number of seats in most of the private medical colleges. The commission meeting held on Thursday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli added 1,359 seats in MBBS, Dental, Nursing etc.

Only 495 seats have been increased in MBBS and 440 seats in BSc Nursing. Seats are not added in Government Medical Colleges .

Prime Minister Oli interfered with the commission's executive committee including experts to determine seats, and a seat was added to a private medical college. According to a member of the commission, Oli had withdrawn the authority given to the committee before last January.

The prime minister intervened by taking the authority delegated to the executive. The instructions of the Prime Minister worked more than the criteria and suggestions of experts in determining the seats,'' he said.

Even though the commission claims that the seats have been increased according to the standards, the experts have criticized that the decision was made to feed private medical . Prime Minister Oli claims that the seats have been increased to prevent Nepali rupees from students going to study medicine.

'Last year, 1,650 students took permission to go abroad for medical education studies at the graduate level. The number of students who get permission to study other subjects is tens of thousands. It is a sad picture of not only economic loss, but also the migration of youth and future prospects out of the country,” he wrote on social media.

Oli says that it is the government's duty to give students the opportunity to become doctors in their own country, and to reduce the long queues at the airport to go to foreign countries. Mentioning that the decision of the Medical Education Commission to add seats is historic, he claimed that more than 3 billion will be stopped from going abroad when the number of seats is increased in MBBS, BDS, B-Pharm, Nursing.

After increasing the number of seats in private medical colleges including MBBS, experts have criticized that they are trying to reverse the improvement in medical education in recent years.

MBBS seats have been increased by 459 from 2 thousand 140 last year to 26 hundred 35 . Most of the medical colleges that are teaching students in 100 seats have got seats at the rate of 130 quota. 40 seats for dental and nursing have been increased to 60.

medical education reformer Dr. Gobind KC claimed that Prime Minister Oli has increased the number of seats for private medical colleges. He said that along with the decision to increase the seats, he is looking to reverse the gradual improvement in medical education and health services.

'Students and people started benefiting . But due to the irresponsible decision to increase the seats, the wrong decisions and judgments of the commission, government, and the courts have ruined the very existence of the Medical Education Act," he said while issuing a statement on Saturday.

Dr. is preparing to increase the fee time with increasing the number of seats. Casey's claim is . He has warned that the irresponsible decision to increase the seats will be withdrawn immediately and if the move to increase the fee is not cancelled, he will start a protest including satyagraha. "The country's oldest and largest Institute of Medical Education Studies (IOM) has not even agreed to teach in 100 seats because the quality is at risk."

It is unfortunate to give 130 seats to a private college with less than a third of its infrastructure and 10 percent patient population, he said. The number of seats in IOM, VP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Dharan, Patan, Rapti, Pokhara, Karnali, Madhes Pradesh Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Nepali Army has not increased. Only a maximum of 100 seats have been allotted in MBBS in Yin .

According to the commission, Kathmandu, Nobel, Birat, Chitwan, Universal, Nepalgunj, College of Medical Sciences Bharatpur, Medical Sciences Dhulikhel, Nepal Medical College, which have been teaching in 100 seats, have got 130 seats. 120 seats have been fixed in Kisht, Gandaki, National, Manipal and Lumbini Medical Colleges.

Devdah has allotted 90 seats, Janaki and B&C Medical College have 60 seats. For BBS, 60 seats have been reserved in Kantipur and People's Dental, while others have got 50 to 30 seats. The report 2072 of the high-level working group on the formulation of a national policy on medical education under the coordination of former vice-chancellor Kedar Bhakta Mathe suggested that a maximum of 100 seats should be allocated to ensure the quality of medical education and manpower. Based on the recommendations of the same report, the commission has been formed by issuing the law.

Mathema said that the seat was determined by weakening the commission and quality. Until 2072, up to 150 seats were determined in private medical colleges by showing fake infrastructure, patients, faculty, beds. He said that it is recommended to maintain 100 seats to maintain quality. "Merely increasing the number of students will not increase the quality of medical education.

The Prime Minister increased the number of seats to cater to the private ones, IOM did not agree to teach even in 100 seats because the quality is at risk, it is unfortunate to give 130 seats to a private college with poor infrastructure. - dr. Govind KC, activist of medical education reform, Other educational, physical infrastructure is needed . Now we have to see how many patients, beds, labs, and faculties have increased. A false comment has been made that Nepal will be made a hub of medical colleges only by money," he said. "Before making a hub, it should be ensured that the quality is adequate. Are you going to create a hub so that you can get a doctor's degree easily in Nepal?'

He claimed that seat increase was done only in the interests of businessmen and investors as it would affect the quality. He said that the commission should answer how many patients, faculty, beds, educational infrastructure have increased in the medical college. "Even in the medical commission, only a person named Hass was seen. Seat determination will be done on the recommendation of an expert." Even though the Prime Minister intervened and increased the seats, I am surprised why the officials of the commission, medical council, doctors' association do not speak," Mathema said.

Last January, the government decided to give a monthly subsistence allowance of 48,000 to the resident doctors of the private medical college. In order to implement that decision, the private medical college management has been making the argument that seats should be increased. At the same time, Prime Minister Oli set aside the Commission and formed a working group under the coordination of then Education Secretary Deepak Kaflele to make suggestions regarding fees and seats.

The working group submitted a report to the Prime Minister with suggestions to increase seats and fees. Pointing to that, the former vice-chairman of the commission, Mr. Krishna Giri, said that the seats were increased in a planned and arbitrary manner on the instructions of the Prime Minister rather than according to the standards. The Prime Minister formed a task force. The seat was exchanged with the subsistence allowance received by the doctors who are in labor exploitation,'' he said, 'the opposite way happened . If the Prime Minister does the work that should be done by experts. Why is the commission needed? He said that if the prime minister would have fixed the seats and fees, the commission would have been cancelled.

Government medical colleges have not demanded more than 100 seats because of the decrease in quality, but the private ones are always trying to increase the seats, he said. BDS has increased by 50 seats. In which a total of 625 seats have been determined. According to the Commission, 440 seats have been increased to 2400 seats in BSSc Nursing. 1062 seats have been determined in BNS by adding 122 seats. For the first time MBBS seat has been allotted in Purvanchal University and Madan Bhandari Institute of Health Sciences in Hetounda.

The quality of medical education cannot be increased by just increasing the number of students, educational and physical infrastructure is needed, and money is needed to make Nepal a hub of medical colleges. - Kedarbhakta Mathema, an expert in medical education They got 50/50 seats . Purvanchal has started the teaching of medical education in Koshi Hospital and Madan Bhandari Foundation in collaboration with Hatunda Hospital. One of the members said that Prime Minister Oli stopped the commission meeting saying that the financial resources were not assured even though the VP establishment demanded to increase the seats.

The Commission has issued a procedure for evaluating the quality of educational institutions providing medical education and determining seats . In which the academic efficiency of the educational institution, working faculty, physical infrastructure, services provided, the number of seats determined in the previous academic session, the number of students enrolled in the said number of seats are mentioned as the bases of seat determination .

Similarly, criteria have been set for health services provided by educational institutions and affiliated hospitals, self-appraisals of educational institutions and evaluations by experts, evaluations of physical infrastructure of institutions, infrastructures of departments by experts, and evaluation of resources available for academic work. According to the