Future in danger: Thousands of students doing MBBS in Ukraine in final year examination, pleaded with PM Modi

The future of 7,000 Indian students pursuing medical education in Ukraine is in danger. All these students are students of third and final year MBBS in different medical colleges, whose examinations were also near, but before that the Russian army attacked.

The return of these students has started. In such a situation, health experts have started raising questions about the future of the students. He says that the future of the students is in total danger. Nothing is clear about further studies so far.

Even if Ukrainian colleges award degrees to these students in the coming days, they will still have to take the National Exit Test (NEXT) in India, which will be mandatory for all from next year. Since the screening test here has always been a big challenge for the students coming to India after studying abroad. In such a situation, the central government is also being demanded to decide the future of these students at the earliest.

Dr. Siddharth Tara, General Secretary of Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding an immediate decision so that the students and their families can get some comfort.

He said that there are more than 22 thousand students in Ukraine, out of which about seven to eight thousand students are from MBBS final year. On Tuesday, MBBS final year student Naveen Kumar was killed in an attack in Kharkiv.

Dr. Tara says that this is the most fatal situation for the students who have taken admission there by taking a bank loan. Because children have to be called back before their studies are over. What will happen next? No one knows this, but the Government of India should think about them immediately.

Dr. Tara says that when a student cannot get admission to the government medical colleges of India, then he selectin the option of abroad. This is also because doing MBBS from outside is less expensive as compared to private medical colleges in India. Now, these students are coming back, in such a situation, the Government of India should also tell that if we give them a chance in our country, will they get a government institute? Because, even if they get admission to a private college, even then everyone's family will not be able to bear the expenses.

India spends more on education

Dr. Rakesh Bagri, a member of the Federation of All India Medical Association (FEMA), says that it costs more than one crore rupees to complete MBBS in any private medical college in India, whereas the same course is available in any medical college in Ukraine. From 27 to 28 lakh rupees. Living in Ukraine is also not very expensive. If compared with the national capital Delhi, then the standard of living of a city like Kharkiv or Kyiv is almost the same.