LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association’s Punjab chapter has demanded that the Ministry of Health dissolve the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC).

The YDA also expressed its ‘no confidence’ on the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan.

The YDA office-bearers said monopoly of a certain group of people in the two leading medical education regulatory bodies had almost ‘destroyed’ the standard of medical education in Pakistan.

YDA President Dr Javed Aheer, Dr Amir Bandesha, Dr Zeeshan and Dr Shabbir Chaudhry told reporters on Tuesday that the National Assembly’s Standing Committee had declared the PMDC illegal.

Dr Bandesha said the standing committee had taken this decision when a delegation of the YDA had informed it about the illegal elections of the council. The YDA had also raised issues of mismanagement and corruption of the body. “We had provided to the standing committee evidence of illegal conduct of the PMDC elections and registration of fake doctors,” he claimed.

He said the YDA demanded transparent elections of the PMDC within 100 days and warned of countrywide protest for not taking action in this regard.

He further announced that the YDA would take part in the coming elections of the CPSP to re-organise the institution. It had constituted a seven-member committee headed by Dr Nasir Abbas to formulate strategy to participate in the elections of the council next year.

The YDA leaders further announced that the young doctors would launch protest on March 25 to protest delay in implementation of the service structure.