Kathmandu. After the decision to increase the MBBS seat numbers at the Nepali Army Institute of Health Sciences (Army Medical College) became controversial, the government has formed a five-member investigation committee under the convenorship of Prof. Dr. Ramesh Prasad Acharya. The matching process for students who passed the medical education common entrance examination will only proceed after the recommendations submitted in the committee's report are implemented.
Serious questions were raised about the decision-making process after allegations surfaced that Prof. Dr. Devendra Bahadur Khatri, Vice-Chairman of the Medical Education Commission and former principal, created a conflict of interest by giving the responsibility of acting director to his own wife to increase seats at the army's college.
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