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Future of 300 medical students in jeopardy
SUKKUR, March 14(The News): The future of some 300 medical students is in jeopardy as the Pakistan
Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) has refused to recognise the Sardar
Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College (SGMC) Sukkur.
The college was
established in 2003 by the then Sindh chief minister, Sardar Ali Muhammad Maher.
However, the college does not have the required faculty even today,
prompting the PM&DC action.
Students as well as teachers of the SGMC
feared the college would be closed down by the PM&DC if the government
failed to provide it with the required faculty, endangering the future of about
300 medical students from five upper Sindh districts, including Sukkur,
Khairpur and Ghotki.
According to rules and regulations of the PM&DC,
a medical college should have about 25 professors, associate professors and
assistant professors on its faculty.
But at the SGMC only one professor,
four assistant professors and two associate professors are working at the
faculty. Besides, only two permanent posts of professors are sanctioned - one of
principal and the other one of the professor of physiology while the rest
faculty members work on an ad hoc basis.
However, at present, a total of
80 staff members are working at the college in different
capacities.
College principal Prof Asadullah Maher has said that he has
invited the officials concerned of the PM&DC to visit the college and
understand its importance in upper Sindh.
He was of the view that the
SGMC was imparting quality education to students from the lower and lower middle
classes, who couldn't afford education in other parts of the
province.
District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah is optimistic about the
future of the college, saying Chief Minister Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim
will help the people of this area by sanctioning the posts needed for the
college.
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