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Cabinet of Ministers decides on medical universities suitable for foreigners

The Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan has decided in which medical universities foreign students can study.

The decree on Certain Issues of Admission of Foreign Citizens to Educational Organizations Implementing Higher Professional Medical Education Programs establishes that the admission of foreigners is allowed to educational organizations that have passed international programme accreditation.

The Ministry of Education and Science was instructed to approve a plan for admission of foreign students only to medical universities that have passed international programme accreditation for a period of at least three years in foreign agencies accredited by the World Federation for Medical Education.

Earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers set the minimum fee for paid educational services for foreign citizens studying in medical specialties.

There are 23 higher medical educational institutions in Kyrgyzstan. At least 39,851 students study in them, including 24,653 foreigners.

It became known in 2020 that Pakistan included all medical schools in Kyrgyzstan in the black list and does not recommend its citizens to enroll in them.

The reason was that 90 percent of Pakistanis — graduates of universities in the Kyrgyz Republic cannot pass the mandatory exam of the Pakistan Medical Commission and their diplomas are not recognized at home. It became known later that four universities were transferred by the Pakistani side to the green list (List A), four more must be accredited, they have been issued a temporary accreditation for a year.

Former head of the Ministry of Health Alymkadyr Beishenaliev said he intended to close 17 private medical schools out of 22 existing ones. The list has already been made. In February, on behalf of the minister, a commission was set up to check the clinical sites of the country’s medical universities.

However, the Anti-Corruption Business Council noted that, according to the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, a license can only be revoked through a court. This can be done by the Ministry of Education, not the Ministry of Health. As a result, the Ministry of Health suspended the process of revocation of licenses from several medical universities in Kyrgyzstan.

The Anti-Corruption Business Council also proposed to set a mandatory minimum tuition fee for foreign students at medical schools ­- $3,000.

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