FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
The Kathmandu Post
25 June 2017
FOLLOW
INSTRUCTIONS
About
one and half years ago, the government formed a high level commission to draft
the Health Profession Education Policy (HPEP). Despite its recommendations to
fix the fee for students who wanted to pursue the faculty of medicine, the
government was dilly-dallying to do so. As a result, the medical colleges were
charging exorbitant sums for MBBS and post graduate courses.
Tribhuvan
University has finally fixed fees amounting to Rs, 3.1 million for MD/MS
programmes and has instructed the Institution of Medicine (IOM) to charge the
fees accordingly (“Rs. 3.1m fee set for
MD/MS courses” June 22, Page 3). However, the challenge for both TU and IoM
is whether the medical colleges will abide by this rule. Any colleges found to
be still charging exorbitant fees should be lawfully punished.
Likewise,
the fees for the MBBS course also need to be fixed immediately so that studying
medicine will be affordable for aspiring students. The government should take
sincere initiatives to monitor whether private schools are strictly following
its instructions with regard to charge the school fees based upon the its
established criteria. Parents have been cheated by these schools in the name of
providing quality education.
Rai Biren
Bangdel
Maharajgunj
