PMDC may disaffiliate private medical college linked to KU

KARACHI: Administration of Karachi University (KU) is responsible for not establishing medical college and hospital within stipulated time given by Pakistan Medical Dental Council (PMDC).

On this failure PMDC administration under its rule and regulation decided to disaffiliate private medical college from KU.

Vice President Pakistan Dental Association Central Dr Kafi Iqbal said PMDC had given a two-year deadline to KU to establish its own medical college but University could not start this project due to known reasons.

Secretary General Pakistan Medical Association Centre Dr Mirza Ali Azhar said PMA would take stand if this decision was wrongly implemented to benefit someone or some specific institution.

He said some vested interest group wanted to establish provincial PMDC, CPCP and other institutions.

He said PMA would take stand against any such decision that would destroy medical education in the country.

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad directed public sector non-medical universities in the province to immediately disaffiliate medical colleges affiliated with them in accordance with the decision of PMDC.

He said public sector non-medical universities were required to disaffiliate medical colleges affiliated with them to safeguard the future of students of medicine studying in these institutions.

The governor issued orders to public medical and health universities in Sindh to start proper affiliation of medical colleges situated within their respective jurisdictions.

Medical colleges in Karachi can seek fresh affiliation either with Dow University of Health Sciences or with Jinnah Sindh Medical University.

President PMDC Prof Masood Hameed Khan said medical colleges were being linked with general universities due to shortage of medical universities in Sindh province in past.

Now the medical universities have been established in the province, hence these colleges can now be affiliated with these universities, he suggested.

Vice Chancellor Jinnah Sindh Medical University Prof Tariq Rafi said private colleges would be affiliated with government medical universities.

He said medical universities would be responsible for conducing examination and designing curriculum for their affiliated colleges.

He said similarly private colleges in interior Sindh would be affiliated with nearby medical universities.