Medical students from Kerala studying in war-torn Ukraine are not quite enthused by the National Medical Commission (NMC) plan to temporarily allow them to study in universities in other countries.
A. Karthik Madhav from Thiruvananthapuram, who is a sixth year undergraduate student at Bukovinian State Medical University, said on Wednesday that the proposal lacked clarity.
“We are not quite clear about the universities that are part of this temporary academic mobility programme in India. In Ukraine, not many are offering this. Universities such as Odessa National Medical University, which have this option, are in tie-up with institutions that are in areas less affected by the war with Russia. Some other universities which are part of it are in Poland and Romania. Cost of living and shifting to these places will be a problem apart from our lack of proficiency in the local language,” he pointed out.
