Overcharging medical colleges warned

Amidst numbers of complaints against several medical colleges, which demanded excess fees from MBBS students, Medical Education Commission (MEC) has warned of terminating the affiliation of such colleges. The MEC, which is also the governing body for medical education sector, issued a notice on Tuesday to clarify that the colleges cannot demand fees going against the law. “The fee ceiling set by the government covers all the expenses – university registration fee, internal and board examination fee, forensic posting, field visit, internship fee, application fee, affiliation fee, admission fee, lab fee and library fee – required to complete all necessary educational activities,” read the statement.

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Ways paved for opening new medical colleges

In Nepal, there are two ways to operate a medical college. One is to be established as an academy of health sciences, and the other is to receive affiliation from a university. However, when the Parliament endorsed the National Medical Education Act in January 2019, the affiliation process came to an end. As per the act, a universit

Ministers Khand, Paudel discuss medical college fees

Minister for Home Affairs Bal Krishna Khand and Minister for Education, Science and Technology Devendra Paudel Friday held a discussion regarding the higher fees charged by the medical colleges to the MBBS students.

Discussion on medical college's fee dispute underway

KATHMANDU, Jan 14: The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has started discussions with the stakeholders after medical colleges started charging higher fees than the determined.  Office-bearers of Medical Education Commission and Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Dean of Kathmandu University, Chief District Officers of Kathmandu Valley, proprietor of medical college Sunil Sharma, students and guardians are participating in the meeting held under the chairmanship of Education Minister Devendra Paudel at Singha Durbar.  The Education Minister has been warning of action against the medical colleges charging high fees.

Chitwan hospitals increasing capacity of oxygen plants

CHITWAN,, May 18: The health facilities in Chitwan district have been working to expand the capacity of oxygen plants when the entire country including the district is struggling with a short supply of life-saving gas with the surging Covid-19 cases.   Two medical colleges and the Bharatpur Hospital have to seek help of oxygen industries to manage oxygen gas for the Covid-19 patients as the production from their plants is not enough to meet the current requirement. The Old Medical College is expanding its Gaindakot-based oxygen plant. Hospital residential director Dr Manohar Pradhan said the hospital plant has the capacity of generating 400 cylinders of gas in 24 hours and its capacity is being increased to produce more 200 cylinders. The hospital is preparing to see the more production from this week. The medical college’s daily requirement is 300 cylinders.  Similarly, the Chitwan Medical College has proceeded towards the operation of a new plant with the daily capacity of 600 cylinders. Hospital chair and managing director Dr Harish Chandra Neupane said they hoped to see the installation of plant equipment within a week. The present production by the hospital plant is around 200 cylinders in a day while the demand is double: around 400 cylinders.  Similarly, the Bharatpur Hospital is planning to add one more plant. Hospital Development Committee chair Dr Bhojraj Adhikari said they were assured of the allocation of Rs 120 million from the Ministry of Health and Population to set up a new plant. The hospital will proceed towards that end soon, according to him. The hospital’s present production is around 75 cylinders each day against the daily consumption of 200 cylinders. District Public Health Office, Chitwan chief Deepak Tiwari said the district-based hospital currently needed 1,200 cylinders while the total production is just 880. It means the district is facing the shortage of 320 cylinders daily amidst the raging Covid-19 pandemic.