BIRGUNJ, Jan 22: Two youths, who were pursuing their studies in medicine in Birgunj, Parsa, lost their lives in a motorcycle accident on Sunday.

BUTWAL, Oct 29: Medical students’ hunger strike at Universal College of Medical Sciences (UCMS) and Teaching Hospital in Bhairahawa has entered its 15th day today.

KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Agitating students at Tribhuvan University Institute of Medical Sciences (IOM) in Maharajgunj have engaged in clash with police personnel in front of the medical campus on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, March 11: A group of medical students are on a relay hunger strike demanding a safe environment for studying at Maitighar area in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Jan 5: Medical students staged protests at Maitighar in the capital against Kathmandu Medical College for charging more than the prescribed fees by the Medical Education Commission.

Medical students, who have not been able to complete their internships in China due to travel restriction to China following the COVID-19 pandemic, have continued with their protests demanding the government make necessary arrangements for internship.

KATHMANDU, Nov 28: Private medical colleges have agreed to return or readjust the illegal fees charged to MBBS and BDS students following threats of legal action by the government.

KATHMANDU, Nov 27: Medical colleges on Tuesday refused to refund the illegal fees taken from students flouting an ultimatum issued by the government on Monday.

BIRGUNJ, Nov 24: The students of the Birgunj-based National Medical College (NMC) staged protests on Saturday, after some senior students manhandled the agitating students protesting against the exorbitantly high fees charged by the college administration.

BHAIRAHAWA, Nov 12: Students of the Bhairahawa-based Universal Medical College have padlocked the college demanding that the college return the additional fees it charged the students.

KATHMANDU, Nov 12: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the medical colleges to address the demands of the medical students.

KATHMANDU, Nov 6: Medical students on Tuesday demonstrated at Maitighar Mandala demanding the return of additional fees charged to them by the private medical colleges. The MBBS students carried placards and chanted slogans while encircling Mandala from 2 pm till evening. They also demanded legal action against the medical mafia.

BHAIRAHAWA, Nov 3: Students of the Bhairahawa-based Universal College of Medical Sciences have started protests, demanding that the college return the additional fees it charged them.

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: Private medical colleges have threatened to stop enrolling new batches of MBBS and MD students if the government does not provide a way out of legal and procedural ambiguities facing the admissions process.

KATHMANDU, Oct 29: At a time when five-year records of Nepal Medical Council (NMC) reveals that a majority of medical students studying abroad fail the license test conducted by the NMC, the medical students studying in Bangladesh have demanded that the internship period be slashed from one year to six months.