A group of specialists who had assumed an instrumental part in the drafting of the Health Profession Education Policy (HPEP) have requested that the legislature ought to forgo allowing affiliations to new medicinal schools. Issuing an announcement on Sunday, they have said that affiliations to new medicinal schools ought not be allowed when an assention has been come to end the connection procedure until the Health Profession Education Bill (HPEB) supported by Parliament. “We request that the administration instantly stop the alliance procedure and assist work to embrace the bill,” the announcement peruses. The announcement has been marked by Kedar Bhakta Mathema, previous bad habit chancellor of Tribhuvan University; Dr Arjun Karki, previous VC of Patan Academy of Health Sciences; Dr Madan Upadhyay, previous VC of

BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences; Dr Ramesh Kanta Adhikari, previous senior member of the Institute of Medicine and Dr Bhagwan Koirala, previous official chief of TU Teaching Hospital. (PR)