IMA writes to PM about uncertainties looming over fate of medical students returning from war-hit Ukraine
India Today
The IMA, in its letter to the PM, recommended allowing the students returning from Ukraine to continue their remaining studies at Indian medical colleges.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Friday sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, raising concerns over uncertainty looming over the future of medical students evacuated from Ukraine.
"The Indian Medical Association is concerned about the fate and future of all these medical students admitted to various medical schools/colleges in Ukraine and, out of the compulsion of the situation, have turned out to be the hapless victim thereto," said the letter.
The IMA in its letter recommended allowing these students to continue their remaining studies at Indian medical colleges.
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“All the evacuated medical education learners who are Indian citizens and have procured admissions there upon seeking an eligibility certificate from the statutory authorities in India and at various stages of progression, they be adjusted as a onetime measure in existing medical schools in the country through an appropriate disbursed distribution keeping in mind the geographic locational interest of the said learner," the IMA recommended.
The letter added, "This will also need the validation of certification which has been made by the competent academic authorities of the medical schools where they were originally admitted to medical schools in Ukraine whereby the progression of theirs’ would be permissible in Indian Medical Schools. On passing out, they will be as good as Indian medical graduates and not foreign medical graduates. This will be a great save for all of them from their uncertain fate and future, and would also go a long way in catering to a larger human cause in a most befitting manner.”
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