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Gagan Thapa urges PM to save Dr KC’s life

Nepali Congress leader Gagan Thapa

Kathmandu, January 17

Nepali Congress leader Gagan Thapa has appealed to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to take immediate initiatives to save the life of medical education reform activist Dr Govinda KC.

KC is staging a fast-unto-death in Ilam district of eastern Nepal for past nine days. Whereas his health is deteriorating, the government has not made any effort to begin conversations with him.

Organising a press conference in Kathmandu on Thursday, Thapa, who once served the country as the Minister for Health and mediated the conversation between the two sides, demanded that the Prime Minister issue an order to put on hold the National Medical Education Bill and make corrections as demanded by Dr KC.

Dr KC has demanded that the Bill be presented in Parliament, duly following an agreement the government signed with him earlier.

Thapa claimed Dr KC was neither a communist nor a Nepali Congress supporter; hence his voice should be respected.

“Dr KC does not have any vested interest. While we need hundreds like him, is the government ready to kill him?”

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