Steps will be taken for Ukraine returned medical students to complete courses: CM Vijayan
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that his government will take all possible steps for enabling Ukraine returned medical students and other students to complete their courses.
While a PIL is already filed in the Supreme Court for allowing Ukraine returned medical students to take admission in the medical colleges in India, now Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has also come in support of these students. On Monday, he said his government will take all possible steps after informing the Centre and National Medical Commission (NMC) so that these students can continue their studies here in India.
The state government has also directed the Kerala Medical Council to allow provisional registration of Ukraine returned medical students for completing their one-year internship or remaining syllabus at affiliated medical colleges or hospitals attached to such institutions free of cost.
A special cell led by NORKA would be working on this issue with the health department and an amount of INR 10 crore has been earmarked for the same in the budget for 2022-23, the CM added, as reported by NDTV.
Malayali students returned from Ukraine
Chief Minister said this while responding to CPI(M) MLA C K Hareendran's notice, during the Kerala Assembly session, inviting the CM's attention to the plight of Malayali students who returned from the troubled country Ukraine and their studies have been disrupted.
Hareendran said that steps must be taken to ensure that these students are able to complete their education and also recover the certificates and other documents they left behind in Ukraine while leaving the war-torn nation.
CM Pinarayi Vijayan has said nearly 3,379 Malayali students have returned to the state with help of the Centre and the NORKA Development Offices in Delhi and Mumbai. He said that in ensuring that these students can continue their studies and also recover their certificates and other valuable documents, the central government would have a major role.
Further decisions on the education of these medical students can only be taken based on the recommendation of the National Medical Commission, which has guidelines for completing internships by medical students returned without completing their studies and internships due to unusual and compelling circumstances such as the Covid-19 pandemic or wars, he added.
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