Secretary at the Office of Prime Minister and Council Minister Shanta Raj Subedi, and member of the National Planning Commission (NPC) Yagya Bahadur Karki met Dr KC at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) and tried to persuade him to abandon his ongoing hunger strike."Secretary Subedi and NPC member Dr Karki came to urge Dr KC to end the hunger strike," said Suman Acharya, a student of Dr KC.
Acharya said that Dr KC told the government representatives that hunger strike was not his choice but compulsion. "Even though my protest is for people of the whole nation, the government has fooled me repeatedly," Acharya quoted Dr KC as telling the government representatives.
A senior professor at the Institute of Medicine (IoM), Dr KC is on fast-unto-death from Monday to pressure the government to fulfill his eight-point demands, which includes full implementation of Mathema committee report and past accords that mostly calls for measures to reform medical education in the country.
He has demanded that the cabinet endorse Mathema committee report and start forming policy to implement its recommendations.
A high level task force led by educationist Kedar Bhakta Mathema had submitted its report on national policy on Health Profession Education (HPE) on June 29. But the government made the document public only on August 4 in view of the growing public indignation fueled largely by Dr KC's warning of staging a hunger strike.
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