“1,100 Indian Students Currently In Ukraine”: Centre To Lok Sabha
New Delhi, 10th December 2022: On Friday (December 9), the centre informed the Lok Sabha that most of the students studying medical science in Ukraine have returned to India. However, 1,100 students are still there in Ukraine.
Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State for External Affairs, responded to a question by stating that the Indian embassy in Kyiv had issued a warning on October 25 requesting that all Indian citizens quickly depart Ukraine in all feasible ways.
She said, “While the majority of Indian students studying medicine in Ukraine have already returned to their home countries, there are still 1,100 Indian students studying there.”
Lekhi stated, “The mission has instructed all Indian nationals residing in Ukraine to “strictly” abide by the safety and security directives issued by the Ukrainian government and local authorities.”
She continued, “The mission had also supplied information on choices accessible to Indian nationals for crossing borders in its advise and it remains in contact with our nationals in Ukraine to provide help when required.”
The minister also cited the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) initiatives to assist Indian medical students whose studies in Ukraine were impacted by the crisis.
According to Lekhi, the NMC created a plan in a public notice dated July 28, 2022, under which Indian students who were in their final year of an undergraduate medical programme at a foreign institution but had to leave and finished their studies with a certificate of course completion from their institute by June 2022 would be allowed to sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) examination.
After passing the FMG exam, foreign medical graduates must complete a two-year “Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship” to make up for the clinical training they were unable to complete physically during their undergraduate medical education at the foreign institution and to get accustomed to practicing medicine in India.
