SUKKUR: The management of the Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College (GMMMC), affiliated with the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU), has started the admission process although it has made acceptance of candidates conditional with approval by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC).

The PMDC had recently issued directives to the college to ‘stop admission’ for the new session till the ‘deficiencies’ the council’s inspection team had found in the college faculty and infrastructure were overcome.

The college management placed an advertisement in newspapers declaring new admissions but the ad clearly mentioned that admission would be given after the PMDC’s ban was lifted.

Sources said that SMBBMU Vice Chancellor Dr Ghulam Asghar Channa who was scheduled to leave for Turkey had cancelled his visit and was returning to Larkana from Karachi on the directives of the Sindh chief minister to resolve the matter and enable students to get admission to the college in the new session.

So far, the sources said, the SMBBMU had done nothing to sort out the issue, which might further add to the problems of the students if they went ahead with the admission despite ban.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2015

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