New Delhi, June 26

Medical college students, who had been evacuated from war-torn Ukraine, sat on a starvation strike at Jantar Mantar on Sunday demanding admission within the nation’s medical faculties as a one-time measure.

They mentioned there are roughly 12,000 college students, barring these within the remaining yr, and as there are not less than 600 medical faculties within the nation, every establishment wanted to accommodate solely round 20 college students.

Around 350 folks participated within the protest. Of these, 35 college students from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan sat on a starvation strike from 10 am to five pm, Parents’ Association of Ukraine Medical Students (PAUMS) president R B Gupta mentioned.

“We also held a march at Jantar Mantar. We want the government’s help in accommodating our children. My child was studying second-year in Ivano (Ukrainian city). We are only requesting the government that these children be accommodated as a one-time measure,” he mentioned.

PAUMS has additionally written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this regard.

“There are 15,000-16,000 (approx.) medical students out of which around 3,000 are of final year for whom the NMC (National Medical Commission) has permitted to complete their internship in India, which is a breath of relief. Now, this leaves us with 12,000 approx. students to be given admission… There are around 606 medical colleges in India, which means each college will have to accommodate only 20-21 students…,” the letter learn.

“This is an unprecedented war situation which needs extraordinary thinking, steps and solution. We are hopeful that a lenient view shall be taken while taking a decision in regard to accommodate all Ukraine-returned MBBS students and our request may be well taken and acted accordingly. We will be highly obliged,” it added.

Thousands of scholars from India learning in numerous medical faculties throughout Ukraine needed to abandon their programs and return house after Russian forces launched an offensive towards the japanese European nation.

In April, too, mother and father of MBBS college students had staged a protest at Jantar Mantar demanding the federal government’s intervention in accommodating their youngsters in medical faculties.

In March, a Public Interest Litigation was filed within the Supreme Court looking for instructions on the problem of admission and continuation of their research in India.

The plea additionally sought instructions to the Centre to supply a medical topic equivalency orientation programme for such college students.

The Indian Medical Association has additionally really useful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that such college students be accommodated in Indian medical faculties as a one-time measure.

In a letter to Modi on March 4, the IMA had mentioned such college students ought to be permitted to go to Indian medical faculties for the rest of their MBBS programs by an “appropriate disbursed distribution”, nevertheless it shouldn’t be seen as a rise within the annual consumption capability.