Govinda K.C.

On 8 January 2018, following the decision of the Supreme Court to reinstate Dr. Shashi Sharma as Dean of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. K.C. called a press conference to condemn the move and began his 14th hunger strike. Dr. K.C. accused the court of "selling justice" and began his hunger-strike to demand the resignation of Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli. He alleged the Chief Justice was "a corrupt individual having links with the mafia". Since 2014, Parajuli has ruled in favor of private medical colleges and against the Nepal Medical Council, the regulatory body governing medical education in the country, and the rulings have favored seven for-profit medical colleges in the country.

Later that evening, the Supreme Court ordered his arrest for contempt of court. He was arrested by the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police from TU Teaching hospital, where the hunger strike was being staged, and taken to the Singha Durbar Police Circle. Nepal Medical Association (NMA) demanded instant release of Dr. K.C. and condemned the incident as being gravely sad. NMA stated that Dr. K.C. has brought positive changes in the medical sector through his hunger strike. On 9 January 2018, K.C. was presented before the SC and a hearing was scheduled for 10 January. K.C. remained in the custody till the hearing. In his statement at the court, KC stated that "CJ Parajuli had lobbied and secured a job for his nephew at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) as the commission’s legal counselor following a SC decision in favour of the former CIAA chief commissioner Lokman Singh Karki."

On 10 January 2018, he was released on general date without bail by the Supreme Court. The Court ordered to enquire the controversy of Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli's citizenship and the case of Dr. Shashi Sharma would be reopened. Dr. K.C.'s lawyer Surendra Bhandari told on K.C.'s behalf that K.C. had accused the Chief Justice Parajuli of his corrupt actions. Similarly, K.C. on his release told:

Dr Govinda KC initiated his 15th fast-unto-death, in Jumla on June 30, 2018 to protest against alternations made to the Medical Education Ordinance Replacement Bill, among other issues by the government led by K P Oli.

Dr. KC sat on his Eleventh fast unto death from 24 July 2017 with seven point demand of medical education reformation. He has demanded to incorporate the Kedar Bhakta Mathema led committee's recommendation in the forthcoming Medical Education Bill.

Meanwhile, the professor's health deteriorated further. When the government of Nepal succumbed to mounting pressure and agreed on most of the agenda, he broke his fast, and the Nepal Medical Association and other supporters of the movement retracted the proposed protest measures. He sat on sixth fast unto death from 24 August 2015 to 6 September again as the government heavily influenced by unscrupulous politicians and merchants with wrong intention tried with all means to let the medical colleges go unregulated by undermining the Mathema report. The fast again ended with 11 commitments from the government.He sat on eighth fast against wrongdoings of CIAA and for reform of medical education since 10 July 2016 which continues till date as government and legislators have failed to act in public intetest.

In January 2014, K.C. launched another hunger strike, campaigning against the political appointment of a new dean of IoM, which did not reflect seniority, as well as several other grievances. Supporting this cause, the medical association of Nepal shut down hospitals, except the emergency services, across the country. The Nepal Medical Association called for mass resignation of doctors across the country and almost a hundred doctors and professors resigned. The doctors announced free medical camps at public places. These collective actions appear to have been successful, so K.C. broke his fast.

K.C. has traveled extensively to assist victims of natural disasters. In 2001, he spent three weeks in the Bhuj region in Gujarat, India after the earthquake. In 2005, he served in Northwest Pakistan for around 20 days after a disastrous earthquake. After a cyclone in Myanmar in 2008, the government of Myanmar prevented foreign aid agencies from entering the country, but admitted him for two weeks. In 2010, he went to Haiti in the wake of the disastrous earthquake and served for three weeks. In 2011, he served flood victims in Pakistan for two weeks. In 2013, he went to the Philippines to treat people affected by the Tsunami.

Govinda K.C. initially studied at the Institute of Medicine to be a Health Assistant (H.A.), which is the equivalent of a Physician Assistant in the US after completing his high school in the prestigious Budhanilkantha School. He had been unaware that this was a step in potentially becoming a doctor but on completing his H.A. he won a Ministry of Education scholarship to study for a M.B.B.S. in Bangladesh at Rajshahi Medical College. After graduation, he returned to Nepal and served in Bir Hospital. He then received further study (M.S.) in Bangladesh at Dhaka University to become an orthopedic surgeon. Although he wanted to serve in a tertiary hospital and there was a shortage of orthopedists in Kathmandu, plans were made to transfer him to a rural hospital where there would be no facilities to practice orthopedics. He resigned from Bir Hospital and joined the Institute of Medicine as a volunteer in 1994.