The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has recognised Jhalawan Medical College in Khuzdar, Makran Medical College in Turbat and Loralai Medical College, according to Balochistan Health Secretary Noorul Haq Baloch.
For the past 15 days, students from various medical colleges in Balochistan have been conducting a sit-in outside the Quetta Press Club, claiming that the government had neglected them.
Medical students from Makran Medical College (Turbat), Jhalawan Medical College (Khuzdar), and Medical College Loralai staged a sit-in in Quetta in protest of the Pakistan Medical Commission’s announcement of a test to be performed in order to register the three medical colleges.
The students contended that because an entry test was already been administered, there was no need for another one for previously enrolled students. Anyone who fails to pass the test will be struck from the rolls, according to the new test guidelines.
According to Hidayat Baloch, one of the protesting students, it was a clear infringement of their rights. “If such a test was to be conducted, why did they waste our years?” he said while talking to media.
Now that the government has taken notice of the protests, it has stepped forward to address all of the students’ concerns.
پاکستان میڈیکل کمیشن (PMC) نے جھالاوان میڈیکل کالج خضدار، مکران میڈیکل کالج تربت اور لورالاٸی میڈیکل کالج کو تسلیم کرلیا سیکرٹری محکمہ صحت بلوچستان نور الحق بلوچ کی ذاتی کاوشوں اور لورالاٸی میڈیکل کالجز کے پرنسپلز @CMOBalochistan @SyedEhsanShahPk @noorulhaqbaloch pic.twitter.com/zvJNZ9fz62
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A special committee had applied to the PMC for college registration on the directions of the Balochistan government. The members of the committee had previously visited the PMC and had invited its officials to visit these colleges.
A special delegation of the Pakistan Medical Commission toured the three colleges and the hospitals with which they are affiliated last month, and after inspecting educational, teaching, and other facilities in the institutions and hospitals, it recommended that the colleges be registered.
“The teaching process in these three medical colleges began in 2017, and four badges of students are presently being studied.” The colleges have 600 students, with 50 students in each badge,” the health secretary stated.
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