New Delhi: The future of 20,000 medical students who returned to India from war-torn Ukraine is now in danger. Yes, Union Minister of State for Health Dr. Bharti Praveen Pawar said in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that no medical student studying abroad under the Indian Medical Council Act-1956 and the National Medical Commission Act-2019 is currently being accommodated in the colleges of the country. can be done. Therefore, no Indian student who has returned from Ukraine has been given any permission till now to study in the country’s educational institutions.
Significantly, on Tuesday, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharti Praveen Pawar told Parliament that, according to information received from the Ministry of External Affairs, about 20,000 Indian students have returned from Ukraine. These students are either covered under the Foreign Medical Graduate Screening Test Regulations, 2002 or the “Foreign Medical Graduate License Regulations, 2021”.
Simultaneously, the Minister of State for Health Bharati Pawar informed the House that no foreign medical student has been allowed to be transferred or accommodated by the National Medical Commission in any Indian Medical Institute/University.
However, he pointed out that as per the information received from the Ministry of External Affairs, the Indian Embassy in Kyiv has also liaised with all the relevant universities in Ukraine to make the transcripts and other documents easily available to the students. At the same time, he said that the central government is committed to providing all possible help to all such students.
