Admission policy for medical colleges soon

KARACHI - Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed told the Sindh Assembly on Friday that admission policy for medical colleges/universities in Sindh will be announced in a couple of days as the committee constituted for the purpose has submitted its recommendations to the chief minister.
Replying to a point of orders raised by PPP’s Kulsoom Chandio and Abdul Sattar Rajpar, the health minister said that in the policy various issues have been addressed including the number of seats as well as the reservations being expressed by people.
He pointed out that the PPP and MQM are coalition partners in the Sindh government for about one and a half years and have been working to promote understanding and harmony in the province.
He said that the admission policy has been chalked out by a committee which was setup by the Chief Minister to work out solution to reservations of people and the same would be announced in a day or two.
He, however, castigated the so-called nationalists and said they tried to politicise the issue to make political gain. He said “it is duty of all of us to thwart their conspiracies as we have come with the votes of people to solve their problems”.
The minister said that the committee in its recommendations would also incorporate the political vision of President Asif Ali Zardari and MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.
Earlier, PPP PMA Kulsoom Chandio, on a point of order, said that up gradation of Chandka Medical College to the status of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University was appreciable but the seats of Dadu has been decreased from 45 to 35, and that of Larkana decreased from 41 to 32, Kashmore from 28 to 21. Similarly, she said seats of Jacobabad and Shikarpur were also decreased.
The legislator from Dadu said that medical students have staged protest and visited the grave of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto against these excesses. She said that seats for the students of interior Sindh in medical colleges/universities in Karachi have also been decreased and asked the government to take notice of situation which was causing sense of deprivation among the students in the interior of the province.