MCI told to approve students study in a Chinese medical university

Updated on: Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Medical Council of India (MCI) was directed by the Delhi High Court to give eligibility certificates to a group of students, pursuing five-year MBBS course in a Chinese University, to practice here after their studies.

Allowing a group of students' plea, Justice Hima Kohli directed the country's apex body regulating medical education and profession here to issue certificates to the students on the ground that they are in the middle of their studies in China.

The court's direction came on a batch of petitions by the students challenging MCI's decision rejecting their pleas for eligibility certificates in 2008.

In their pleas to the high court, the students said they were selected in September 2007 to pursue the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) course by the Jiggangshan University of China for the academic session 2008-13.

Claiming that the course was recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the medium of instruction for the same was English, the students said they had applied to MCI for the certificate under the Eligibility Certificate Regulation 2002 in August 2007.

The medical body, however, had rejected their applications in February 2008 on the basis of the Indian Embassy report that Jiggangshan University was not in the list of 30 universities recognised by Chinese government and even the medium of instruction was not English.

The students said they had moved to China after their admission but MCI refused to grant them the eligibility certificates despite repeated representations by them even as they it assured them that it would accord them the certificate after modifying the relevant rules but did nothing to keep its promises.

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