KARACHI, Sept 17: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi chapter, has said it fears that some quarters might be bent upon manipulating results of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council election held on August 6 at nine centres in the province.

In a statement issued here on Monday, it urged the federal ministry of health to immediately notify the name of the member declared elected to the PMDC for the post of general practitioner from Sindh.

According to Dr S. M. Qaiser Sajjad, General-Secretary of the PMA, Karachi, all members of the association have expressed concern over the “deliberate and unnecessarily delay” in notifying the election results.

The five-member election committee of the PMDC, after a meeting on August 7, had declared Dr Shershah Syed as winner when he secured the highest number of votes. Dr Sajjad said that PMDC’s officiating secretary had already forwarded the winner’s name to the federal health ministry.

The PMA alleged that the notification of the successful candidate’s name was being delayed at the instance of the vested interests within the PMDC and the federal health ministry.

These elements have been playing unethical and unconstitutional tactics and this would only cause deterioration in medical education, according to the statement.