Nepalese students in Bangladesh

             Nepalese students in Bangladesh

The world was doing fine, so were the Students who came from Nepal to Bangladesh.

Suddenly, in January 2020, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China started progressively spreading to different nations with WHO declaring its Public Health Emergency of international concern. Bangladesh, which has become one of the education hubs of South Asia these days could not remain untouched from the virus which leads Students who came with a bag brimming of big dreams and aspirations to become a doctor in Bangladesh stranded.

 With the increasing chaos and dread of the virus various things started whirling in the mind of the Students, like whether they should fly back to Nepal or not. They figured it would be difficult to return to the country where they had gone to make their ambitions come true if they left in the hustle. Where the students were still in dilemma and the world was attempting to perceive how to fight with the virus. The virus took a monstrous form and almost all the countries halted their international flights to control the virus from spreading. Because of the cancelation of the international flights around 800 Nepalese students got stuck in Bangladesh. Since then those students are trying to reach out Government of Nepal and appealing for help to return home. They even tried reaching out through the popular TV show ‘Sida Kura Janta Sanga’by Rabi Lamichane, did digital fasting with the only hope of getting support from Government to fly back home said Santosh Shah, who is among the student stuck in Bangladesh.

Later, after reaching out Nepal Government the Students were made to fill various

Forms online which ended up being a bogus confirmation and false assurance. Further, Mr. Shahalso expressed that students would have appreciated if the Government could have managed just to rescue the Nepalese who are working in the Gulf Countries because the number of Nepalese who have reached the point of death due to the virus are increasing day by day and reading such news is making morale of the Students low. Students from Bangladesh has made a humble request to the Government to rescue the Nepalese in Golf Countries first as the scenario there is getting worse and rescue them in second priority.

Further, they stated that countries like India, Bhutan have already rescued their citizens

Who were their classmates and roommates but they are still forced to be there and could not feel the warmth of the nation. At this time, where things are uncertain Students just want to come back home and feel the presence and warmth of the Mother Land. They also mentioned that they will be more than satisfied to serve their nation during this pandemic whenever given an opportunity and are ready to fight the battle against the virus as most of them already have the license and some of them are in intern position and likewise requested Government that they don’t want to die in a foreign land.

                              

                                                                                                        Ref: Dr. Rahul Goit