NAWABSHAH, Dec 6: People’s Medical College Principal Azam Yousufani admitted on Wednesday that 91 girls of the college could not get through the MBBS final-year examination this year due to absence of certain professors who were more interested in their private practice.
Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday, he said that due to absence of the professors a large number of students were suffering. The students have not only lost their money but also a precious year of their academic career, he said.
He said that he had been appointed to bring an end to corruption and check the attendance of professors, but they were hatching conspiracies against him, as he had continuously been writing about their negligence and irregularities to the higher authorities. He said that out of 124, 64 students were admitted on chief minister and governor’s quota and they did not deserve to be admitted.
When asked about the future of those 64 students, Mr Yousufani kept quiet.
Answering a question, he said there were 16 seats of professors at the PMC of which nine were lying vacant since long. The seven professors rarely attend the college as they run private clinics in other cities, he said.
He said the professors did not want to live at Nawabshah due to private practice in other cities or due to difficulties in their children’s education.
He said that professor of gynae, Khairun Nissa, remained absent throughout the year as she runs a private clinic at Hyderabad and had her family was settled there. She wants to get transferred and there is no vacant place at Chandka Medical College, so she knows that she would either be transferred to Hyderabad or Karachi, he said.
He said that there was a shortage of associate professors in the college and he had submitted a proposal that professors should be appointed on contract basis.
He said that the failed students had a right to protest. He said that he would soon inform the governor about affairs at the college.
He said he had made arrangements for the supplementary examinations of the failed students, which will be held in the last week of December. They would get the results by February, he said.