Kathmandu, June 28

Govinda KC, a senior orthopaedic surgeon at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, issued a press statement today expressing concern about allocation of more seats to foreign students for MD and MS programmes at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan.

He warned of starting a fresh protest if the agreement signed by the government with him was not implemented. The medical colleges can’t allocate more than one-third of the total seats to foreign students as per the National Medical Education Act.

The BPKIHS has been accused of allocating three out of five quotas each, in general medicine and paediatrics and four out of six quotas in surgery, for foreign students.

Junior Resident Welfare Society, a society of junior resident doctors at BPKIHS, has padlocked the offices of Vice-chancellor Dr Raj Kumar Rauniyar and Rector Dr Guru Khanal’s office since Thursday protesting the enrolment of foreigner students exceeding the quotas allocated for them. The BPKIHS has claimed that it has allocated only 26 out of 123 seats in MD and MS programmes for foreign students. The agitating doctors have demanded that the quota rule be implemented properly.

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