
In January, 2016, a four-member PMDC team, led by a registrar, Brig (retd) Hafeez Ahmed Siddiqi, legalised a Bilawal Medical College. PHOTO: EXPRESS
HYDERABAD: As Bilawal Medical College, that will exclusively offer medical preparation to masculine students in Jamshoro, awaits capitulation from a Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), allegations of irregularities have started to flow in.
Announced in 2014 by a vice-chancellor (VC) of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Jamshoro, Prof Dr Noshad A Shaikh, a college has nonetheless to accept central capitulation and install a lass batch.
“The VC has finished all to spoil a name of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,” purported a Jamshoro-based PPP leader, Lala Rehman, during a press conference. “He [the VC] has embezzled millions of rupees in a college’s name.”
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The college is envisioned to change what LUMHS views as a disproportionately aloft series of womanlike students graduating from a university, who are demure to work in farming areas. It will offer one hundred slots for admissions in a initial collection during a price that will be aloft than what a students compensate during LUMHS, trimming from Rs500,000 to Rs600,000 per year.
Following a proclamation on September, 2014, a PMDC wrote a minute to a sovereign and provincial health secretaries recommending gender share during 50% for any masculine and womanlike students in medical universities and colleges.
Rehman indicted Shaikh of laundering income and demanded accountability. He went on to lay that nonetheless a college has nonetheless to go by a routine of receiving a PMDC’s approval, a newly-appointed expertise is being paid salaries for a past year.
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“I interest to a agencies questioning crime to start a examine opposite Shaikh and to put his name on a Exit Control List,” Rehman demanded.
In Dec final year, a organisation of LUMHS teachers, led by Prof Dr Sohail Ahmed Almani, filed a petition in a Sindh High Court praying to cancel appointments in a college and LUMHS.
In reaction, LUMHS, that instituted a college plan in a premises in a former boy’s hostel, deserted a allegations while describing them as an try to assail a university.
“The university announced to settle this college over dual years ago with a goal to overcome a necessity of masculine doctors in a province,” pronounced Dr Saroop Bhatia, a emissary registrar and varsity spokesperson.
He denied any check on partial of a university. According to him, PMDC’s mandate of a college’s infrastructure and expertise have been met. “The university is in consistent hit with PMDC and, hopefully, a college will be authorized within a successive integrate of months,” he assured, adding that a initial college intake will be announced in 2017.
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In January, 2016, a four-member PMDC team, led by a registrar, Brig (retd) Hafeez Ahmed Siddiqi, legalised a college. A successive investigation revisit followed by a capitulation was also approaching final year.
“We have over a mandate of a college building and faculty. Now, a VC is perplexing to arrange a training sanatorium for a college,” Prof Dr Ikramuddin Ujjan, focal chairman for a college project, told The Express Tribune.
Acquiring possibly a taluka sanatorium in Kotri, Jamshoro district or supervision taluka sanatorium in Qasimabad, Hyderabad district is a priority for a college’s training hospital, he said.
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According to him, 8 expertise members – 3 professors, dual associate professors, dual partner professors and a techer – have been appointed.
Meanwhile, he denied that a college’s expertise were sketch salaries for around a year, clarifying that a appointments were done in Jan this year.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1428017/lumhs-vc-accused-corruption-bilawal-medical-college/