'PMDC's latest rules, regulations to produce quacks only'

Pakistan Medical Association PMA has termed Pakistan Medical and Dental Council PMDC directly responsible for the deteriorating standard of medical education in the country.
PMDC Officials have recently changed the ratio of the Medical Teachers to Students in Medical Colleges across the country and lowered it considerably to a level which would badly affect the standard and quality of medical education being imparted to medical students at the 108 Public and Private Sector Medical Colleges of the country. If the decision is not taken back then in the years to come our medical colleges would be producing quacks instead of quality doctors.
PMDC according to their Original Rules And Regulations laid down as Minimum standards of the Students And Teachers Ratio had mentioned that there should be 1 Professor, 2 Associate Professors, 3 Assistant Professors And 10 Demonstrators for teaching 100 Students for each subject and for a total class of 300 Students there should be a total of 3 Professors, 6 Associate Professors,9 Assistant Professors And 30 Demonstrators to teach one subject like Anatomy and as many are required for other subjects like Physiology, Biochemistry and so on. This was the reason that Pakistan was producing world class doctors and today the top physicians and surgeons across the world belong to Pakistan.
According to the recently revised criteria and reissued regulations of PMDC the council has decreased the criterion for the minimum requirement of the teachers and students ratio in medical colleges and now for 300 Medical Students in a class the College Administration just requires 1 Professor, 2 Associate Professors, 3 Assistant Professors and 16 Demonstrators. PMA has termed this as a great injustice that one professor is being forced to work in place of 3 professors and questioned the officials of PMDC that how is it possible that 16 Demonstrators would be able to do the job of 30 demonstrators? This would adversely affect the quality of medical education being imparted at our medical institutions and ultimately the quality of the doctors being produced in Pakistan.
PMA Office Bearers Dr Tanveer Anwar, Dr Ashraf Nizami, Dr Izhar Ch, Dr Akhtar Rashid, Dr Kamran Sheikh, Dr Ehsan Ur Rehman, Dr Shahid Malik, Dr Sabahat Habib, Dr Yasmin Ihsan and Dr Salman Kazmi further said that despite decreasing the criterion of teachers and medical students by PMDC, majority of the private colleges are unable to fulfil the new criterion as well and it is just an attempt of The PMDC officials to make medical education a profitable business. PMA further added that some top officials of Federal Government are unfortunately involved in changing the criteria and are indirectly responsible for the destruction of the health system of the country.
PMA has appealed to the Honourable Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan and Lahore High Court to take Suo Moto Action on this and restore the old teachers and students criterion in the 108 medical and dental institutions of the country to ensure the production of quality doctors in Pakistan.