Medical students evacuated from war-torn Ukraine went on a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand one-time admission to the country’s medical colleges. He said there are about 12,000 students excluding students in the final year, and since there are at least 600 medical colleges in the country, each institution needs to accommodate only about 20 students.
Around 350 people took part in the protest. Of these, 35 students from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan sat on hunger strike from 10 am to 5 pm. Ukraine Medical Students (PAUMS) President RB Gupta said. We also took out a march at Jantar Mantar. We seek the help of the government in accommodating our children. My child was studying in second year in Ivano (Ukrainian city). We are only requesting the government to accommodate these children as a one-time measure,” he said.
PAUMS also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard. “There are 15,000-16,000 (approximately) medical students, of whom about 3,000 are final year, for whom the NMC (National Medical Commission) has given permission to complete their internship in India is a sigh of relief. Now, this leaves us with about 12,000. Students will be admitted… There are around 606 medical colleges in India, which means that each college will have to accommodate only 20-21 students,” the letter read.
“This is an unprecedented war situation that requires extraordinary thinking, action and solutions. We hope that a liberal approach will be taken while taking the decision regarding accommodating all MBBS students who have returned from Ukraine and our request may well be taken up and acted upon accordingly. We will be highly obliged,” it added. thousands of students from India Studying at various medical colleges across Ukraine, he had to drop his courses and return home after the Russian military launched an offensive against the Eastern European country.
In April also, parents of MBBS students had protested at Jantar Mantar and demanded government’s intervention in accommodating their children in medical colleges. In March, a Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions on the issue of admission to India and continuing their studies.
The petition has also sought a direction to the Center to provide a medical subject equivalence orientation program for such students. The Indian Medical Association has also recommended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that such students be accommodated in Indian medical colleges as a one-time measure.
In a letter to Modi on March 4, the IMA had said that such students should be allowed to attend Indian medical colleges for their remaining MBBS courses through “fair distribution” but not as an increase to be seen. Annual intake capacity.
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