Kathmandu, January 7
Medical education reform activist Dr Govinda KC has threatened to go on hunger strike yet again if the Parliamentary Education and Health Committee didn’t amend the medical education draft bill prepared by the committe’s sub-panel.
Dr KC’s warning comes a day after the sub-committee submitted its draft proposal to the committee. According to sources, the report does not include the ‘Mathema Commission‘ in the preamble– as was agreed by the government during negotiations with Dr KC during his previous hunger strike.
During a press conference on Monday morning, Dr KC said that draft didn’t meet some of his demands. “The chairman of the committee had told us that our demands would be met which is why I postponed my hunger strike. I now request the committee to amend the draft proposal at the earliest or else I will be forced to stage a hunger strike again,” said Dr KC.
