Save Dr Govinda KC in Nepal

Nepal and its people have been suffering a lot because of ignorance and political instability. The politics has contaminated every sectors among them education and health issue are very serious. The problem is politicians (some of them) and their affiliates have been holding the major of shares of education and health sectors. For their vestige need Dr Govinda KC's life is at risk. The national and international community must be serious to the "Satyagrahi".

There is an urgent need to resolve the issues that led Dr. Govinda KC to embark on his fifteenth hunger strike in July this year and that now have thousands demonstrating with him on the streets of Nepal. Dr. KC’s demands for the right to accountable government and social justice, including affordable quality public education and healthcare are:
The passing of a health education act that will ensure:
1. The creation of new medical colleges across the country and the creation of no more in Kathmandu Valley

A cap on the cost of medical education
The availability of free higher education in medicine

2. The implementation of the Mathema Committee Report on Health Profession Education Policy
3. The repealing of a bill tabled in parliament that would allow the creation of a new ‘cooperative’ medical college in Kathmandu in which 146 or more parliamentarians have a share.