LARKANA: The students of the Bibi Assefa Dental College continued their protest for the seventh day running on Monday by boycotting classes and OPDs against the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s refusal to confer recognition on the college.

The protesters who marched from the college building to the administration block of the Chandka Medical College criticised the management of the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU) for being indifferent to their problem and called for immediate measures to get the college registered by the PMDC.

Dr Ilyas Shaikh, principal of the dental college, said the students were pressing for the recognition of the college. A team of PMDC had raised three objections during its visit in December 2013 — incomplete building, deficiency of teaching faculty and shortage of required equipment, he said.

The equipment had arrived and the SMBBMU managers had loaned the college Rs2.5 million to complete the building but the incomplete faculty could not be completed because of a ban on appointments in SMBBMU imposed by the Sindh government, he said.

Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2014