LAHORE, Dec 22: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council at its 119th general council meeting on Thursday gave approval to 10 newly-established public and private sector medical and dental colleges in the country.
For the first time, the PMDC also approved two government medical and dental institutes in Azad Kashmir on the long-standing demands of Kashmiri students.
Presided over by Prof Dr Sibtul Husnain, the general council meeting was held in Islamabad on Thursday. More than 60 members of the council, including principals, vice chancellors and heads of medical and dental institutes, attended the meeting.
Of the six approved state-run medical and dental colleges, four belong to Punjab and one each to Muzaffarabad and Mirpurkhas, a source told Dawn.
The private medical colleges are: Rahbar Medical College, Lahore; Aziz Fatima Medical College, Faisalabad; Hashmat Medical College, Jalalpur Jattan, Gujrat; and Bibi Asifa Dental College, Larkana.
The newly-established government medical colleges are: Gujranwala Medical College, Gujranwala; Khawaja Safdar Medical College, Sialkot; Sahiwal Medical College, Sahiwal; and Post Graduate Medical College (for under graduates), Lahore.The source said the PMDC general council had also given green signal to the students of under-construction DG Khan Medical College of the Punjab government to submit their admissions through the Quaid-iAzam Medical College, where they were attending classes for the session 2010-11 and recently admitted students for the session 2011-2012.
On the occasion, he said, the PMDC constituted a committee headed by UHS Vice-Chancellor Hussain Mubashar Malik to look into the matters pertaining to the DG Khan Medical College like infrastructure, ongoing development work, provision of faculty and academic issues of its students studying in QAMC, Bahawalpur.
The other members on the committee are: Punjab Health Secretary Mohammad Jahanzeb Khan, Dow Medical University, Karachi Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Masood Hameed and Prof Dr Muhammad Rafique.
The committee would submit its recommendations to the PMDC on the matters exclusively relating to DG Khan Medical College to make it fully functional as soon as possible.
The meeting also approved the Post Graduate Medical College and asked the Punjab health authorities to change college’s name. Though the PG Medical College has been approved by the PMDC, the Punjab government did not allow its administration to admit students for the 2011-12 session.
The PMDC also issued directions that all the newly-established government and private medical colleges in Punjab “shall affiliate with the UHS
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