Maharashtra: Private medical colleges to accommodate Ukraine-returned students
MIT college in Maharashtra has come forward to express its willingness to accommodate the Indian medical students who returned from war-hit Ukraine.
Reportedly, the Maharashtra government is planning to accommodate the Indian medical students who returned from Ukraine to the state medical colleges. Meanwhile, private medical colleges in the state have come forward and expressed willingness to accommodate these students and MIT college is one such college.
Rahul V Karad, managing trustee and executive president of MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions, said, “The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has brought to the fore the much debatable but generally dormant issue of medical education in India. Following the Russian invasion of that country, thousands of Indian students studying medicine in various cities of Ukraine have left the country and their MBBS courses midway and consequently, their future education is now in jeopardy,” as reported by Hindustan Times.
MIT college wants to adjust students in MIMER Talegaon, MIMSR Latur if govt permits
He said he will volunteer to accommodate some of these students in two medical colleges located at MIMER Talegaon and MIMSR Latur if the government of India gives special provisions and flexibility in the existing admission norms including the intake of medical colleges.
He also said that if the government allow the amendment in these rules, many other medical colleges in the country would be happy to accommodate these students.
Maharashtra medical colleges
The state has a total of 44 state-run medical colleges and a total of 6,750 MBBS seats in these colleges. A total of 43 colleges have 3,171 post-graduate seats. Maharashtra also has 10 deemed universities that offer medical education.
Last week, the minister for medical education Amit Deshmukh had asked the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) to contact the universities in Ukraine to check if Indian students can continue their medical education as exchange students in medical colleges in Maharashtra.
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