MIRPURKHAS, Sept 6: A two-member team of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) visited the Muhammad Medical College, established in the private sector, here on Monday and inspected different departments of the college and medical education facilities being provided to students.

During inspection the team, comprising PMDC Convener Professor Arbab Ghulam Rasool and a PMDC board member, Professor Fakhar Imam, found that associate professors working in the college did not possess the required degrees.

The visiting team expressed concern as doctors failed to produce their relevant degrees for the associate professor. There was also shortage of staff and senior doctors.

The team expressed its dissatisfaction over teaching facilities made available to students and shortage of the staff, including professors, in the college.

The members of the PMDC team told newsmen that during their earlier inspection various objections were raised and the college administration was asked to fulfil requirements for proper medical teaching facilities, including professors, but no improvement was made in this regard, while the college administration claimed that all the requirements of the college had been fulfilled.

Later the team also visited different wards of the Civil Hospital of Mirpurkhas to check its standard as teaching institution for the final year students of this college.

The PMDC team found that students were not visiting the Civil Hospital to perform practical work and instead of specialist doctors and senior professors of the civil hospital, doctors of the college were teaching them.

PPP MNA: People’s Party Parliamentarians’ Member of the National Assembly Pir Aftab Shah Jilani has advised Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim to quit from his post and contest elections to verify his unpopularity among masses.