QUETTA: Balochistan Health Secretary Noorul Haq Baloch has said that the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has recognised Jhalawan Medical College, Khuzdar; Makran Medical College, Turbat; and Loralai Medical College and has issued an official notification in this regard.

On the instructions of the government of Balochistan, a special committee had applied to the PMC for registration of the colleges. The committee members had visited the PMC several times and invited its representatives to visit these colleges. Last month, a special team of the Pakistan Medical Commission inspected the three colleges and the hospitals they are attached with and after examining educational, teaching and other facilities in the colleges and the hospitals, it recommended registration of the colleges.

“Teaching process in these three medical colleges started in 2017 and currently four badges of students are under study. With 50 students in each badge, 600 students are studying in the colleges,” the health secretary said.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2021