Kathmandu, June 11 -- Three Chinese doctors face possible deportation from Nepal after the Nepal Medical Council (NMC) suspended their temporary registrations over their involvement in an illegally operating hospital in Kathmandu.

The council, the national regulator of medical doctors and dentists, said that it had granted temporary permission to the Chinese doctors to work in Nepal but had not authorised them to practise at the illegally operating hospital.

"We found that they were affiliated with an illegally operating hospital in Kathmandu and were practising medicine there," said Dipendra Pandey, acting registrar of the council. "The hospital, which had been operating for over seven months, has been found luring patients through mis...