Fee Hike: Medical colleges asked to reverse fee

ISLAMABAD:  

Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) on Friday decided to reverse the seven per cent raise in tuition fees for students at private medical colleges. According to a Ministry of National Health Services official, the authority will approve the old fee structure, under which annual tuition fees was Rs642,000 for local  students and $18,000  for dual-nationals. He said the fee hike was approved last year by the previous PMDC council members. It had allowed private medical colleges to charge Rs689,714 for general seats and $19,260 for overseas Pakistani seats. Notices will be issued to medical colleges upon violation of PMDC rules and regulations, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 25^th, 2016.