Maha: Beed girl gets medical college seat after HC intervention over disability assessment

Mumbai, Oct 9 (UNI) An 18-year-old visually-impaired student from Beed district has secured admission to the MBBS course at Government Medical College, Sangli Miraj, following intervention by the Bombay High Court's Aurangabad Bench after a medical assessment board initially declared her ineligible to pursue medical education. Syed Musfira Fatema Rafiuddin, who has a benchmark visual disability associated with congenital low vision, albinism, nystagmus and amblyopia, had qualified the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate examination in 2026. She secured 345 marks out of 720 and obtained an All India OBC NCL PwBD rank of 796. Despite qualifying the examination, she…