Doctor appears for NEET PG 2026 as parents remain missing in Nepal floods, says 'I have to do it for them'

New Delhi: While her parents remained missing after the devastating Nepal floods, a doctor appeared for the NEET PG 2026 examination on August 30.

Sharing her emotional ordeal, the candidate said her parents were part of a 67-member group travelling for the Kailash Yatra when floods struck Nepal's border region on August 26.

She said that the group was last known to be near the immigration centre and Friendship Bridge in Nepal and that she had been unable to contact her parents or other members of the group following the floods.

Despite the situation, she appeared for the NEET PG examination on August 30. 

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In a video posted on Instagram after the examination, she said that she found it difficult to concentrate during the three-hour NEET PG exam. "Out of the three hours exam, I think one-and-a-half hours I spent just crying," she said.

She showed the blue ink mark on her thumb from the biometric process and explained that even reading the questions became difficult at times because of her tears. Yet she kept going.

"I want to, I have to do it for him. I have to do it for my parents," she said.

She further said in the video that the NEET PG examination screen displays two photographs, including the photograph from the admit card. She said the photograph shown on her screen had been taken by her father.

"On the NEET PG screen, the questions you're giving, right, there's two pictures on that. The admit card photo. And that photo was taken by my dad. And that made NEET PG so much more difficult," she said.

The doctor said she continued with the examination because she believed her father would have wanted her to appear for it. "I just knew that my dad wants me to give this exam and I have to do it for him, I have to do it for my parents."

"The more difficult part was, you know, in the morning before exam, my mom would usually make dahi shakkar (curd and sugar). And my dad would have wished me luck. It's just that in this exam, that didn't happen," she said.

She ended with a simple hope that has become central to her family's wait. “They have to come.”

The August 26 floods in Nepal’s Rasuwa district and adjoining areas have caused massive death toll. As of September 2, at least 1,066 people have died in Nepal and Tibet, while 4,462 remain missing, according to reports. 

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