KARACHI: The row between the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) and the Sindh health department has intensified after the commission has advised Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU), Karachi, not to intervene in private medical and dental college admissions.
Pakistan Medical Commission barred Jinnah Sindh Medical University from enrolling in private colleges. In this regard, the PMC has written a letter informing that the advertisement of admissions in private medical colleges by the university is not only a violation of the Constitution of Pakistan but also the law as laid down conclusively by the Supreme Court and the Sindh High Court.
The public notice by the JSMU has unfortunately caused grave and unnecessary confusion amongst the students and, therefore, requires to be withdrawn immediately as neither the JSMU nor the admission committee or the Sindh health department is legally mandated to undertake admissions to private medical and dental colleges, the letter says.
According to reports, eight private dental schools in Sindh attempted to evade the government’s decision to challenge the admissions process by accepting MDCAT failure pupils instead of qualified applicants who were easily available. Statistics on national admissions support this assertion. Out of 540 available seats, only 22 MDCAT-qualified applicants were admitted by eight dental colleges: Isra Dental College, Muhammad Dental College, Baqai Dental College, Fatima Jinnah Dental College, Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences, Bhittai Dental & Medical College, Baqai Dental College, and Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine.
A few private medical colleges also made an effort to accept some MDCAT failures in an effort to get an advantage over the Sindh Government’s wrong decision.
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