LARKANA, June 14: A post-graduate centre would soon begin functioning at the Chandka Medical College (CMC), said Sindh health minister Ehsan Ahmed while speaking at a reception of the Pakistan Medical Association here on Thursday.

He said for this purpose the Liaquat University of Health and Medical Sciences would coordinate with the CMC where diploma course would also be offered soon.

Responding to the demands of the PMA, the minister said before Aug a notification for extension in the services of contract doctors would come.

He urged the recently promoted professors to serve at the CMC and the People’s Medical Colleges to overcome shortage of teachers there. He said the promoted teachers would be posted in both the institutions.

Dr Hadi Bakhsh Jatoi, Dr Ikram Tunio and others presented the doctors’ problems.

Earlier, the minister inaugurated a computer laboratory in the CMC.