LAHORE, Oct 29: The Pakistan Medical Association has criticized the senior officials of the University of Health Sciences for “playing with the future of students.”

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, PMA leaders, Prof Yasmin Rashid, Dr Zahid Mohyuddin, Dr Azeemuddin Zahid and Dr Shahid Malik, said changes in the MBBS results of five candidates and putting up a BDS candidate’s wrong marks on the university website, which UHS controller of examinations Dr Aftab Mohsin had admitted, were not merely a mistake, but an act of dishonesty on part of the university administration.

They said the inquiry to be conducted by the UHS would be an eyewash, and demanded the Punjab government that it should constitute an independent inquiry committee, comprising principals of the King Edward Medical College, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Services Institute of Medical Sciences and a PMA representative, to get to the facts.

The PMA leaders alleged that the UHS BoG chairman Prof Mahmood Ahmad Chaudhry was always involved in malpractice and nepotism throughout his career.

“The change of Prof Javed Akram’s daughter Ansa Javed Akram’s position from first to second is not a mistake, but a case of professional jealousy,” said the PMA team, which added that Prof Akram had refused to accept the offer of working as the university’s vice-chancellor.

They demanded that the government should immediately remove Prof Chaudhry from the UHS BoG chairmanship to wipe out the culture of nepotism and appoint some senior professor to take charge of the university.