LAHORE, Jan 10: The Punjab government has declared Gujranwala Medical College (GMC) as a constituent college of the University of Health Sciences (UHS).

According to a health department notification issued on Tuesday, the management, administration and control of the GMC has been transferred to the UHS with immediate effect.

Meanwhile, a press release issued on Tuesday said Gujranwala district headquarters hospital would continue to function as an attached teaching hospital for the GMC.

It said the existing college staff would continue to be government employees under the GMC Development Scheme till its completion. These employees, at their request, would be considered for absorption as the varsity employees in accordance with UHS Ordinance 2002 and the rules framed under it.

UHS Vice-Chancellor Prof Malik Husain Mubashar, in a message on this occasion, congratulated the GMC students and faculty on becoming part and parcel of UHS.

He anticipated that this development would make a significant contribution to the medical education in Punjab and to the health of the province's population.

'We are all here for our students, to produce new generanon of well-trained and humane physicians, and for making positive contribution to medicine in Punjab, through education, training, research and service,' he said, adding the varsity would look after the faculty and staff of GMC and its attached hospital.

Prof Mubashar announced that GMC would be the sub-campus of UHS and resolved to make it a 'model medical college' GMC was established by the Punjab government in 2010 and it had recently been recognised by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) for teaching 100 MBBS students.