PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The NWFP health department has recommended that the girls’ campus of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) be given the status of a full-fledged medical college.

It has also proposed reservation of seats for minority community students and children of teaching and non-teaching staff of medical colleges in the province’s medical colleges.

This was stated in a meeting held in the health department secretariat on Tuesday to review the admission policy of government-run medical colleges of the province for the session 2005-06.

Provincial Secretary for Health Abdus Samad Khan, Principal KMC Dr Omar Ali Khan, Principal Ayub Medical College (AMC) Dr Mohammad Ayub and others attended the meeting.

The participants discussed a number of reforms in the admission policy for the coming session. It recommended allocation of three seats in the KMC and one each in the AMC, Saidu Medical College, Gomal Medical College and Khyber College of Dentistry for the children of the teaching staff.

Similarly, the meeting recommended reservation of two seats for the children of the non-teaching staff and one each for minority community students and those belonging to the Kalam area.

The meeting also called for awarding students the right of selection, qualifying for open merit and reserved seats at the same time.

It was suggested that only those candidates of the backward areas should be deemed eligible for admission on reserved seats, who had been educated in those areas. However, it suggested that students of the areas lacking such facilities should be given the admission on the basis of their domiciles.

Similarly, the meeting proposed that migration from one medical college to another should be allowed only after completion of the first-year study.