Karnali, once synonymous with poverty, hopes to become a centre of Nepal’s medical education

Ten years after its establishment, Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS) will be starting MBBS classes, as it becomes the remotest medical school in the country. This comes as a boon to many students who had to pay millions extra and migrate to Kathmandu, Birgunj or Nepalgunj to study a bachelor’s in medicine. Consequently, those who left to study medical education, rarely came back to the area due to a lack of opportunities there as they chose to stay in the big cities or migrate abroad.

But, with the college starting the MBBS course soon, people believe that this is a major milestone as locals and activists had to go through a lot of hurdles to ensure the MBBS course started at the academy.