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KATHMANDU, Jan 14 - The government has banned medical graduates from China from joining service without undergoing a one-year "skills enhancement course" or pre-internship.
An estimated 400 MBBS graduates from various Chinese medical universities have been asked to join the one-year "rotationary internship" before they apply for the medical licensing exams.

"We have completed our internship in China but the government is unnecessarily asking us to do a pre-internship before we take up work in Nepal," said a fresh MBBS graduate from Tianjin Medical University near the Chinese capital, Beijing.

Medical graduates from China, who organized a press meet at the Reporters' Club Nepal Saturday, said they were being "unjustly victimized" by the government.

"Medical graduates from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh do not need any pre-internship. This is discrimination," said Deo Man Limbu, another MBBS graduate from China. Students say they want this one year pre-internship to be waived as they have already done it in China.

Speaking at the interaction, Dr Som Nath Aryal, chairman of Nepal Medical Council, said, "The one year rotationary internship is for enhancing the skills of medical students." He said this was applicable to graduates from China and Russia only as medical institutes there do not provide internship. Besides, the course is just of four years in China whereas the usual duration is four and half years, Dr Aryal added.



Posted on: 2006-01-14 19:59:25