LARKANA, Dec 21: The Sindh government has agreed in principle to declare the Chandka Medical College (CMC), Larkana the constituent college of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro.

Speaking at a press conference in the college here on Tuesday, CMC Principal Professor Surgeon Sikandar Shaikh said that the academic council of the college had already adopted the resolution and sent it to the government.

At present the law department was vetting the very proposal, he said and he was optimistic about the early announcement.

The aim is to make LUMHS a full-fledged independent university with the Nawabshah Medical College, the Sukkur Medical College and the CMC as its constituent colleges, he said.

With this kind of arrangement these medical colleges would be pulled out of the control of the Sindh government’s health department, he said.

He said that soon a new Dental faculty would be established in the CMC at an estimated cost of Rs100 million at stipulated time of three years.

Recently, the plan was reviewed and approved in a meeting presided over by the Additional Chief Secretary of Sindh, he said.

This would cater to the need of patients in the interior of Sindh. Besides, an amount of Rs72 million had been earmarked for the establishment of digital library and undertaking renovation of hostels and existing buildings of the college.