Varghese, who grew up in Kochi and is now a final year MBBS student at Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China and this 24 year old if he had not left the country to pursue his ambition of becoming a doctor as low marks in entrance examinations closed the doors on medical colleges in India.
He has stated that there is limited number of medical seats in India, high cut-offs, competition, and the huge fees and donations charged by private medical colleges are sending students from southern India to Armenia, Georgia, China, and the Philippines, where fees are relatively low and the admission process more simple.
The overseas educational consultants has told that 3,000 to 5,000 Indian students join medical universities in China every year and of this, some 300 are from Tamil Nadu, with from Chennai and students prefer the former Soviet Union nations, China and the Philippines over the UK, US, and Canada, which are expensive.
Meanwhile the Education counselor Sujatha has said degrees from some private universities in Georgia lack MCI recognition, which means students getting degrees from there cannot practice in India.
