Around 23,000 Indian medical students who returned from Ukraine, were relieved that their colleges allowed them to attend classes online, but they are worried about practical training. Both the Kharkiv National Medical University and the  Kharkiv International Medical University have asked governments of other countries where they hailed from, to allow students to work in local, private, government hospitals for this. But these students say they are not being allowed to do so.

The students told mid-day that online studies are not possible for them as their studies have to be practical. In Ukraine they said they dealt with operations, treatments and diagnosed patients every day.