Lok Sabha Question No. 3806 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-25
Subject: Scheme for admission of Medical Students returned from Ukraine and China
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Dayanidhi Maran, Rama Devi, Rajmohan Unnithan, Vellalath Kochukrishnan Nair. Sreekandan, Asaduddin Owaisi, N.K. Premachandran, Sougata Ray, E. T. Mohammed Basheer, S. Venkatesan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3806

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 25 TH March, 2022

## SCHEME FOR ADMISSION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS RETURNEDFROM UKRAINE

## AND CHINA

## 3806     SHRI DAYANIDHI MARAN:

PROF. SOUGATA RAY:

SHRIMATI RAMA DEVI:

SHRI E.T. MOHAMMED BASHEER:

SHRI RAJMOHAN UNNITHAN:

SHRI V.K.SREEKANDAN:

SHRI ASADUDDIN OWAISI:

SHRI N.K. PREMACHANDRAN:

SHRI S. VENKATESAN:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Indian students enrolled for medical studies in Ukrainian colleges along with the number of them returned/evacuated from Ukraine and details thereof with split-up of which stage of the course they are in and details of the States/UTs the students are from;
- (b)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  give  admission  to  students  returned  from  China  and those evacuated from Ukraine to Medical colleges in the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to frame a scheme for such admissions and also to allow them to do their internship including extending financial support to them and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  exercise  diplomatic  intervention  with  Ukraine  and China  to  get  the  certificates  and  documents  of  the  students  kept  in  the  custody  of  their Universities;
- (e) if so, the details of action taken thereon; and
- (f) whether the Government proposes to treat the Indian Medical students in China stranded in the country due to the Covid-19 restrictions similar to students evacuated from Ukraine and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

(DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

(a)  to  (f):  Section  14  of  the  NMC  Act,  2019    prescribes  conducting  of  a  uniform  entrance examination namely National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) to all medical educational institutions at undergraduate  and  post-graduate  level. Also, Clause  8 (iv) of Eligibility

Requirement for Taking Admission in an Undergraduate Medical Course in a Foreign Medical Institution  Regulation,  2002  provides  for  that  any  Indian  citizens/Overseas  citizen  of  India intending to obtain primary medical qualification from any medical institution outside India, on or after May 2018, shall have to mandatorily qualify the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for Admission to MBBS course. The result of the NEET shall deem to be treated as the Eligibility  Certificate  for  such  persons  and  no  separate  permission  required  from  NMC. Therefore, data of students going abroad to pursue MBBS is not maintained centrally.

NMC, for the betterment of Indian student pursuing medical studies abroad, vide circular dated 04.03.2022  has  allowed  foreign  medical  graduates  with  incomplete  internship  due  to  such compelling situation which is beyond their control such as war and Covid 19 pandemic etc. to complete their remaining part of internship in India subject to the condition that such candidates must have cleared FMGE (Screening Test), which is mandatory for Indian students with foreign medical qualification to practice medicine in India.

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