LAHORE: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) on Tuesday conceded before the Lahore High Court that all private medical colleges were only minting money, instead of imparting quality education and serving the education sector.
The PMDC divulged this fact when a two-member bench put a query to its counsel whether private medical colleges allocated admission quota for the poor students or talented ones. Counsel Ch. Muhammad Umar replied that private colleges did not allocate such quota as they were totally business-oriented organizations.
A bench, headed by Justice Ch. Shahid Saeed, is hearing several petitions against mandatory condition of entrance test by the University of Health Sciences for admission to medical colleges and changed criteria for the test.
The judge remarked that the government should make the private medical colleges allocate quota for poor students as major part of the country’s population was poor. If there was no mechanism to govern private sector, double shifts should be introduced in public sector colleges to accommodate poor students, the judge observed.
About entrance test system, the PMDC counsel said uniform policy/criteria was being implemented across the country since year 2003 and a LHC single bench had also endorsed this system last year. However, he said, the UHS had initially refused to follow the council’s criteria but agreed to implement the same this year.
Justice Saeed observed that the private medical colleges had completed admission process and collected huge money from students but what the future of these students would be if court gave decision against the test.
When asked by the judge if there was any mechanism to control private colleges, the counsel said the PMDC would take action if the court gave any directions. Petitioner’s counsel Muhammad Azhar Siddique, at this juncture, pointed out that most of the students appearing in entrance test were the repeaters as a little number of fresh intermediates had participated in the test.
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