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The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stopped the Pakistan Medical Commission from cancelling the recent admissions to five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stopped the Pakistan Medical Commission from cancelling the recent admissions to five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and sought admission records.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Lal Jan Khattak also expressed displeasure with the long delay in the formulation of rules for the medical tribunal set up under the Medical Tribunal Act, 2020, and directed the law division to notify the same before May 27.
PMA Slams PMC for Poorly Managing MDCAT
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has raised concerns about the performance of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), saying that the body is deteriorating medical education instead of improving it.
A statement released on Tuesday read that for the last several years, PMA has demanded the strengthening of PMDC as an autonomous, independent, and transparent body for the regulation of medical education in the country. It was further stated,
Unfortunately, in contrast to our demand, the government passed the PMC and Medical Tribunal Act, in haste, through a joint session of the Parliament on 16 September 2020.