By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Nov. 18: Experts from medical education during Gorkhapatra Sambad on Sunday also admitted that the country’s medical education sector was not free from maladies and challenges.
Speaking at the weekly event, Vice chancellor of Tribhuvan University Prof. Dr. Baskota said that all stakeholders were equally responsible for dragging the country’s medical education sector to the current contradicting stage.
He said that the medical colleges were also committing mistake by not implementing the government fixed fee structure.
Likewise, Vice-chairman of Medical Education Commission Prof. Dr. Shrikrishna Giri said that medical education system of Nepal was guided by the open market policy, and this bred the present anomalies. He said the medical institutions were set up for profits rather than maintaining quality of education and producing quality medical manpower.
Similarly, Prof. Dr. Chanda Karki, Principal of Nepal Medical College, said that both the medical colleges and the government have to correct themselves to end the anomalies seen in the country’s medical education sector. She said that the government should have taken action against those colleges, which committed mistakes, rather than keeping all medical colleges in the same basket.
The medical colleges should also improve them and the government should also not act to ruin the private medical colleges, she said.
(See Page 7 for detail interview.)