LARKANA, March 6: The Larkana district government has approached the Sindh government for establishing a dental college in premises of the Chandka Medical College.

Talking to this correspondent here on Saturday, the district government administrative officer said the district Nazim in a letter on Feb 21 to the Sindh secretary for health, copies of which were sent to the deputy coordinator to the prime minister for Sindh, Sindh chief secretary, minister for planning and development and the additional chief secretary for planning and development, had proposed the college establishment.

He said the faculty of dental surgery was working in the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Science, Jamshoro, but and there was no such faculty in the Chandka Medical College.

Responding to the plan, the secretary for planning and development in a letter to the Nazim on Feb 25 said the proposal was being considered.

Dr Fawad Shaikh, assistant chief, women development cell, planning and development, in a letter to the secretary for health said the correspondence should be given priority.

He also forwarded the matter to the additional secretary (development), health.

He called urgent comments from the health department so as to include the project in the coming Annual Development Programme.

The district government secretariat has contacted the director general, health (dental side), Dr Ghulam Hussain Shaikh, in Hyderabad who has offered his full cooperation in this regard.

Mr Shaikh asked district government functionaries to write to the dean of the faculty of dentistry of the LUMHS so that the university and the directorate concerned could initiate studying the plan.

Mr Shaikh is arriving in Larkana on March 10 to further the proposal. District planning officer Ghulam Mustafa Soomro said the district government was ready to provide infrastructure for the dental college.

He said the district government had also proposed to the Sindh government to accord university status to the CMC.