As the Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi visited India today to meet his counterpart S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, the medical students in India pursuing online education for MBBS degree from Chinese universities started a Twitter campaign to grab the attention of authorities. The students want to return to China for offline studies.

Over 20,000 Indian medical students have been pursuing education from Chinese universities. The students are worried about lack of response from universities, changing rules of India’s National Medical Commission on whether the online education will be considered valid to practice medicine in India and getting provisional degrees. The students admitted to Chinese universities have been attending online lectures for the past two years without any clinical practice.
 
While the Centre and state governments are focusing on the issues faced by medical students returning from Ukraine, students who have returned from China due to pandemic are feeling neglected.