Kathmandu, Oct 17: Four hundred and eighteen new seats have been added in medical education in the current academic session.
According to the Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, of the added seats, 110 are for MBBS, 210 for BSc Nursing, and 98 for BMS.
All the added seats have been made available to government educational institutions, while the number of seats in private colleges has remained the same. The new seats have been added with the aim of expanding opportunities to study at lower fees in government institutions.
Meanwhile, MBBS studies with 50 seats are about to started at the Martyr Dasharath Chand University of Health Science (MDCUHS) located in Geta, Kailali.
Similarly, 30 more MBBS seats have been added at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan and at the Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences.
