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Months after returning Indian students to their home country due to the Ukraine crisis and Covid, the Supreme Court has decided to intervene and assist these students.
The Supreme Court has now directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to develop a plan in two months that will allow students to complete clinical training in medical colleges in the country.
“No doubt, the pandemic has thrown new challenges to the entire world including the students but granting provisional registration to complete an internship to a student who has not undergone clinical training would be compromising with the health of the citizens of any country and the health infrastructure at large,” news agency PTI quoted the bench.
The bench, however, recognised the plight of Indian students who were unable to complete their clinical/practical training at foreign universities due to the Covid crisis and the Ukraine-Russia war.
Concerning such students, the Supreme Court directed the NMC to “frame a scheme as a one-time measure within two months to allow the student and such similarly situated students who have not actually completed clinical training to undergo clinical training in India in the medical colleges which may be identified by the appellant for a limited duration as may be specified by the appellant, on such charges as the appellant determines,” wrote Justice Gupta in his decision.
The bench of justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian was hearing the NMC’s appeal against a Madras High Court order allowing students from a Chinese university to register provisionally in India.
The Supreme Court, on the other hand, decided that there was nothing wrong with denying the provisional registration.
Source:IE
