KATHMANDU, AUGUST 23
Some prprietors of private technical and vocational institutions have been demanding amendments to certain provisions in the National Medical Education Act and Regulations.
They have been staging sit-in demanding the revision of the Act and regulations related to medical and nursing education. Discussions have been held between the protesting party and the government time and again, but to no avail.
The provision mandates that a nursing college that runs nursing programme in bachelor's level should have a hospital of its own with at least 100 beds within two years. The protesting party has been pressing for amendment to this provision. The 'unpractical' provision has led some nursing and medical schools to shut down, incurring losses worth billions of rupees, they claimed.
Nirmal Sapkota, coordinator of the Struggle Committee of the protesting proprietors, said some provisions of the National Medical Education Act and regulations had made it difficult for educational institutions running under CTEVT. The National Medical Education Act was issued in 2018. A regulation based on the Act was issued in 2021.
A version of this article appears in the print on August 24, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
