ISLAMABAD, June 9: The government has constituted an inquiry committee to investigate suspension of Federal Government Services Hospital’s teaching status by the Council of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) for six months.

“Yes, I have appointed an inquiry committee which will submit its report to me within a week,” federal health minister Mohammad Nasir Khan told Dawn.

He said the committee would investigate the reasons behind the CPSP action against the FGSH, also known as Polyclinic, as well as the measures being taken to rectify the situation.

The CPSP suspended Polyclinic’s teaching status on the grounds that it did not provide any learning environment to the trainee residential medical officers in the absence of basic facilities like library, lecture hall, internet and regular teaching programmes.

The college has granted the hospital six months to ameliorate the situation or face cancellation of teaching status on permanent basis.