SUNSARI, June 28 -- Junior Resident Welfare Society, a grouping of junior resident doctors at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan, padlocked the offices of Vice-chancellor Dr Raj Kumar Rauniyar and Rector Dr Guru Khanal on Thursday, accusing the institute of exceeding its foreign student enrolment quotas in MD and MS programmes.

Earlier, the agitating doctors had issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the BPKIHS administration to consider its foreign student quota policy.

Meanwhile, Vice-chancellor Rauniyar has claimed that the institute has not breached any rule while enrolling foreign students.

Only 26 of the total 123 seats in MD and MS levels have been allocated to foreign students, as per the Medical Education Act, he sai...