Rawalpindi-The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) has violated its Act 2020 by conducting different Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) from each student instead of holding it on a single day across the country. 
Under the interpretation of the law by the PMC, each student will be allowed to sit in a single test but PMC carried out a month-long test ruining the future of tens of hundreds of brilliant and intelligent students. It was also a gross violation of its own laws, said PMC Punjab President Ghulam Shabbir at a presser held here on Friday.
He was also flanked by PMC General Secretary Dr Khalid Randhawa, President PMC Chakwal Dr Tariq and student action committee representative Hafiz Ali.
Addressing the press conference, Ghulam Shabbir said that the PMC awarded the contract to M/S SOAR Testing and Evaluation Platform (SMS-PVT) and then the company requested the PMC to release an advance of Rs115 million without deduction of the withholding tax to adjust from its share. The company was owned by a contractor who is a one man show and had also increased the fee from Rs500 to Rs6000 for the students to sit in the exams. 
In this way, the corrupt mafia robbed the poor and deserving students, he said. He clarified that the vice president of PMC is a corporate lawyer by profession who is creating misconceptions into the minds of the public by propagating that the doctors are reluctant to sit in the National Licensing Exam (NLE). 
“We are categorically clear that PMC is conducting an exam full of errors and omissions that is not acceptable at any cost,” said PMC General Secretary Dr Khalid Randhawa, while speaking on the occasion. He demanded of Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan to purge the PMC from non-professional officers. The speakers demanded the government to hold MDCAT again through management of a medical university instead of any contractor. They also urged the government to regulate medical education as per international standards.