Medical superintendents submit report on public hospitals

ISLAMABAD: Medical superintends submitted reports along with affidavits before the Supreme Court in a suo motu action taken by Chief Justice on conditions of government hospitals in Lahore.

The chief justice while hearing the case at Lahore Registry also directed to send the reports to the Ad-hoc Committee of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) for its reply, a SC press release said.

During course of proceedings, it was informed to the bench that as per the order dated 6.1.2018, the inspection of the Lahore Medical and Dental College has been conducted by the committee constituted for this purpose and the reports have been submitted, one by the Commission of the Court Ayesha Hamid, whereas others by the members of the committee.

Copies of these reports were ordered to be handed over to Munawar-us-Salam, counsel appearing for PAMI and Lahore Medical and Dental College for their response to be filed by January 22.

The reports along with the replies were sent to Ad-hoc Committee of PM&DC for their opinion.

Moreover, vide order dated 6.1.2018, the court had directed all the private medical colleges in Pakistan, particularly in Punjab, to provide a list of all those candidates who had applied, finalized and finally been admitted to their respective colleges along with the merit list.

Pursuant to the said order, PAMI submitted reports on behalf of Rawal Institute of Health Sciences, Islamabad, HBS Medical and Dental College, Islamabad and Islamabad Medical and Dental College, Islamabad.

The remaining medical colleges had been directed to do the needful positively within a period of one week.

It was directed by the court that a copy of this application be provided to Ashfaq Bhullar, so that he could obtain and file comments on behalf of Multan Medical and Dental College, Multan and Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College, Multan.