Nepal, Jan. 26 -- Riding on its two-thirds majority, when the governing Nepal Communist Party passed the controversial Medical Education Bill on Friday disregarding the opposition voice, it also wrecked in its wake eight years of deliberation and Dr Govinda KC's undying struggle to bring reforms in the country's ailing health sector.

"The majority has passed the revised bill to serve vested interests in an ugly display of power," said Kedar Bhakta Mathema, former Tribhuvan University vice-chancellor and the convenor of the high-level committee formed by the government to recommend a new national policy on medical education. "This will have dire implications in the medical education sector."

Mathema accused the ruling party lawmakers of ...