KARACHI: A deputation of Anti-Quackery Committee of Pakistan Medical Association yesterday [July 30] presented a memorandum to the Director-General Health, Brig. C.K. Hasan, opposing the proposed amendments to the Pakistan Medical Council Ordinance, 1962.

The deputation told the Director-General, who is also the Chairman of Pakistan Medical Council, that the registration of non-qualified medical practitioners will lead to an increased misuse of life saving drugs in the country.

They discussed various aspects of advertising of drugs for the treatment of venereal and other diseases of sex in newspapers and on Television and suggested that such advertisements by quacks should not be allowed. The deputation also discussed problems of the medical personnel in the country.

[Meanwhile, as reported by another correspondent in Karachi,] the Central Minister for Education and Social Welfare said in Karachi yesterday [July 30] that reports of five working committees, appointed last November to look into the question of change-over from English to national languages as the medium of instruction, were “overdue now”.

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2018