Kathmandu, July 5 The Supreme Court issued an interim order to BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan today to halt admission process for MD, MS and MDS programmes.A single bench of Justice Tanka Bahadur Moktan issued the order on a writ petition filed by Dr Pushpa Mani Kharal, a medical activist.
In the petition he had accused the institution of allocating more quotas to foreign students.
The court ordered BPKIHS to halt admission procedure until further notice.
The apex court has ordered all the bodies concerned to be present in the court on July 14.BPKIHS has been accused of allocating three out of five quotas each, in general medicine and paediatrics and four out of six quotas in surgery, for foreign studentsThe medical colleges can''t allocate more than one-third of the total seats for foreign students as per the National Medical Education Act.I filed the case because the decision of BPKIHS is not fair.
Medical seats should be allocated in line with the National Medical Education Act,& said Kharal.Junior Resident Welfare Society, a society of junior resident doctors at BPKIHS, had padlocked the offices of Vice-chancellor Dr Raj Kumar Rauniyar and Rector Dr Guru Khanal office protesting the enrolment of foreigner students exceeding the quotas allocated to them.BPKIHS had, however, clarified that the quotas it allocated for foreign students was as per the National Medical Education Act.
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