Political parties were at odds on Monday over the Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS), as condition of Dr Govinda KC, who has been on a hunger strike for the last 22 days, further deteriorated with doctors warning of severe health complications.
Political parties were at odds on Monday over the Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences (MMIHS), as condition of Dr Govinda KC, who has been on a hunger strike for the last 22 days, further deteriorated with doctors warning of severe health complications.
“Dr KC’s blood pressure and oxygen saturation are in lower range requiring continuous oxygen supplementation” reads a health bulletin issued by a team of doctors attending to Dr KC.
Dr KC has been demanding that the Health Profession Education (HPE) Bill be endorsed by Parliament in the spirit of recommendations made by a team of experts led by Kedar Bhakta Mathema, an educationist and former vice chancellor of Tribhuvan University.
One of the provisions of the HPE Bill calls for putting a 10-year moratorium on establishing new medical colleges in the Kathmandu Valley. If this provision is implemented, the MMIHS will not be able to run MBBS programme. The MMIHS is run by a co-operative where a majority of the 2,434 stakeholders are UML members. UML lawmaker Rajendra Pandey is one of them.
To find a way out, the Nepali Congress says the government should buy the MMIHS. But the UML has objected to this. The Maoist Centre has said it “is trying to convince” UML lawmakers to sell the MMIHS to the government.
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