Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 22 : Around 10,000 students from Kerala, studying medicine and allied courses in China, are facing an uncertain future as the Chinese government is not allowing them back in the country to resume their studies.
After the Covid pandemic struck Wuhan and other parts of China, several students had come back home and the first reported Covid case in India was a medical student in Wuhan who had come to her hometown Thrissur on vacation.
Susan Ann Varghese of Thiruvananthapuram and a final year medical student at China, told IANS that she “cannot go back as the Chinese government is not allowing the Indian students to return and the universities which had taken initiative to send us back home are not responding”.
Students have paid the final year fee of Rs 3.25 lakh and the classes are being conducted online. However the National Medical Commission will not recognise medical courses conducted online and this will create major problems for the students as delayed classes will lead to the course being left incomplete.
Madhavan Nair, of Kozhikode in Kerala, whose son Rohan Nair is also a final year medical student in China, told IANS: “We have been left in the lurch there is no progress on the classes of my son. We have taken huge loans to send him to China and I don’t know if his course will be recognised at the end. Someone should take the initiative and get him and other students to their universities.” As the issue is international, the state government cannot do much.
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