Parents of Ukraine-returned MBBS students seek help from Centre

Parents of MBBS students who returned from Ukraine gathered at the Jantar Mantar in the national capital on Sunday seeking the governments intervention to accommodate their children in medical collegesDr Rajesh Kumar Chandel from Himachal Pradesh father of Vivek Chandel a fifthyear MBBS student of a Kharkiv University in Ukraine said We are not protesting we are requesting the government to accommodate our children in colleges All the parents have come to Delhi to request the government to accommodate their children in Indian medical colleges We have met our Chief Minister Union Minister Anurag Thakur and others Apart from them we have also met BJP National President JP Nadda at his residenceHe assured us that this problem will be solved shortly We have come here to show how many students are affected and are requesting the same We want to collectively raise a voice as it is about the future of our children Earlier in March the External Affairs Minister EAM S Jaishankar in a written statement laid on the table of Rajya Sabha said that the government has been able to safely bring home 22500 Indian citizens and 147 foreign nationals belonging to 18 countries from Ukraine since February 2022 in the wake of RussiaUkraine warRB Gupta President of the Parents Association of Ukraine Medical Students said My child is a secondyear student who is studying in Ivano We are in favour of the government We are just requesting the government that the way they have saved the lives of our children under Operation Ganga they secure our childrens future the same way Currently people from 10 states have joined here at Jantar Mantar including Haryana Punjab Uttar Pradesh Uttrakhand Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Delhi Bihar Rajasthan Gujarat Tamil Nadu and Odisha Gupta added We request the government to fulfil the dreams of students who had gone to Ukraine to become doctors We want them to be accommodated in India Some special norms should be there for these students he further saidTill now we have spoken to Union Health Minister Mansukh Madaviya Parents Association went to his residence and submitted the memorandum We also met former Health Minister Harshvardhan and many Lok Sabha MPs Gupta told Around 12000 students are there who need to be accommodated 20800 students have come from Ukraine of whom 4800 are in Engineering or other courses 18000 students are in medical out of which 4000 students are in their final year and have already been given directions We want all of them to be accommodated in India If the government brings out a Bill then there is a possibility to accommodate these students in India he addedAditya Bhardwaj a fourthyear student at Kharkiv in Ukraine said We are requesting the government as they have already helped us a lot by bringing us back home We are already obliged to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian government for bringing us back home safely Our future is in dilemma Our classes that are running online are not running properly Teachers are taking classes in war zone conditions We request the Indian government to accommodate us in Indian colleges so that we can pursue our studies hereOnly two to three classes are held in a week and that too gets interrupted as it is in the middle of firing and bombing starts due to which teachers have to move to bunkers Our external affairs minister said in Lok Sabha that the Indian government is in talks with the European countries to accommodate us The most important part is that our clinical part of the syllabus is about to start So if we go to Hungary Poland it is necessary for us to know the local dialect For our clinical education we wont be getting a chance to interact with patients till we dont know their local language We learnt Ukrainian for four years but to go to a new country and learn their language will be an extra burden on us Bhardwaj saidSanya a thirdyear student at Ivano in Ukraine said Our online classes are running but MBBS is not a course which can be learnt online We need to have practical knowledge which we are unable to do We have no idea when we will go back to Ukraine So we request the government either give admission to us here or provide some facilities to us to have practical knowledgeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever