99% of Ukraine returned medical students seem in limbo, says Shashi Tharoor
After receiving Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya's letter on Ukraine's returned medical students, Congress senior leader Shashi Tharoor said, "I am afraid it leaves 99% of them in limbo."
Congress senior leader Shashi Tharoor had raised the issue of the future of Ukraine's returned medical students and received a letter from Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya in response to his concern.
Shashi Tharoor tweeted, "Just received this letter from Health Minister @mansukhmandviya responding to my raising the issue of the predicament in which Indian medical students evacuated from #Ukraine find themselves. I'm afraid it leaves 99% of them in limbo."
He also attached the health minister's letter with this tweet. The letter talks about regulations and the steps the government and the National Medical Commission (NMC) have taken to help these students continue their medical education in India.
The letter reads, "I would like to inform that Foreign Medical Students/Graduates are either covered under "Screening Test Regulations 2002" or "Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations 2021." There are no such provisions in the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 and the National Medical Commission Act 2019 as well as the Regulations to accommodate or transfer medical students from any foreign medical institutes to Indian medical colleges."
However, under the direction of the Supreme Court, NMC has allowed the FMGs who returned from China and Ukraine due to Covid or war and have been granted a certificate of completion of course/degree by their respective institutes on or before June 30, 2022, to appear in the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination. After qualifying for the FMGE exam, such candidates are required to undergo a Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) for a period of two years instead of the standard one year to make up for the clinical training which could not be physically attended by these students, added the minister's letter.
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