LAHORE, April 7: As the one-year provisional affiliation granted to the Lahore Medical and Dental College and the Fatima Memorial Hospital and the College of Medicine and Dentistry on court orders has expired , the University of Health Sciences has sought advice from its legal adviser to proceed in the matter.

Talking to Dawn on Wednesday, UHS vice-chancellor Prof Dr Malik Husain Mubashir said the university's affiliation committee had yet to inspect these two colleges. "Further action will be taken on the basis of the legal advice," he said.

He said, the King Edward Medical College and the Fatima Jinnah Medical College were given exemption for the time-being to stay affiliated with the Punjab University. As the Supreme Court and the Lahore High Court have declared this act of the government discriminatory, he said the university had brought the LHC and SC orders to the government's notice and waiting for its compliance.

He said the affiliation committee had finalized a schedule to inspect medical and dental colleges that had applied for affiliation. The committee would inspect at least one college every month provided they would complete their documentation.

The VC, however, said the affiliation committee would inspect three institutions in Lahore on April 10, as two of them had single discipline. The institutions to be inspected by the committee are: Institute of Health Management (BSc lab technology), ACE Institute of Health Sciences (BSc physiotherapy) and School of Allied Health Sciences, Children's Hospital (BSc physiotherapy, lab technology and medical imaging).