Due to shortage of Medical seats admission to any private college is expensive in India, compared with options in Ukraine or Russia, where a 5 and a half year investment of Rs 30 lakh is enough to complete MBBS studies as per many children who left their studies due to war situation in Ukrain. Once these students arrive in India for employment opportunities, they have to pass an entrance exam in India to qualify to be a doctor

LESS SEATS, EXPENSIVE MBBS IN INDIA
It costs a lot to study MBBS abroad too. In countries like Ukraine, with living expenses, an MBBS for five and a half to six years would not cost more than Rs 35 lakh to Rs 40 lakh. While the fee for a management quota seat in India is fixed at Rs 30-70 lakh. This huge gap has led to many aspiring students to look at emerging economies.

Even if you do have enough money, the private institutes are not easy to get admissions. Only 20,000 seats are reserved for management quota in private institutes and the fees is exorbitant. not many can afford to pay more than Rs 1 crore to complete MBBS course.

It is the stiff competition back home and lack of seats that leads many to apply elsewhere. Upon return, students give their Foreign Medical Graduates Exam (FMGE) to get a license to practice medicine in India. “The competition is stiff as a huge number of people apply. Many don’t even make it. They keep options open like China, Ukraine as backup options

BETTER OPPORTUNITIES
The low cost of education, along with the fact that courses in Ukrainian and Russian medical colleges are recognised by the World Health Organisation and are also valid in India, along with the European Council of Medicine, General Medical Council of the United Kingdom as well provide children with wider opportunities to settle outside India

“The risk that children take is that even after having done their MBBS, they have to appear for entrance exams in other countries, even India, the USA, the UK, but the rate of passing out from these countries is also low. It is higher in countries like Bangladesh and Nepal, yet for these children and their parents it is a gamble for a doctor’s degree,” said an official in the National medical council, who did not wish to be named. Union parliamentary affairs minister Prahlad Joshi claimed that at least 90% of students who study MBBS abroad fail to clear their qualifying exams in India.

At the moment, the students who have returned to India after being rescued via operation Ganga, said they would want to return to Ukraine to finish their studies when all this is over.

The Indian government could deliberate on the future course for these students, who have had to leave their studies mid way, but it seems unlikely that they could do anything unless these students have a hold on their medical degree.

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