Pakistan

Acknowledgement: HEC dissolution welcomed

Sindh Doctors Forum, UK chapter, welcomes dissolution, demands Sindh Medical and Dental Council be reinstated.

Express April 12, 2011

LONDON:

The Sindh Doctors Forum, UK chapter, has welcomed the dissolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and demanded that the Sindh Medical and Dental Council be reinstated.

At a meeting held in London on Sunday, the SDF demanded that the proposed Sindh HEC should be fully autonomous without any interference from the provincial bureaucracy. “Autonomy of the HEC is of fundamental importance, so that it may perform its duties efficiently without any interference from outside,” said SDF General Secretary Dr Bashir Solangi.

The SDF executive committee noted that the doctors graduating from medical universities in Sindh faced difficulties having documents verified by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council in Islamabad and resolved that the Sindh Medical and Dental Council, which existed until the sixties, be reinstated.

The executive committee also called for concrete steps to be taken to provide financial aid to flood survivors. “Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the last year’s epic floods are still waiting for the promised aid and have been left at the mercy of the natural elements,” said Dr Solangi.

The SDP also condemned the removal of Dr Zulfiqar Mirza from the Sindh home ministry. Dr Mirza, it said, must be praised for apprehending alleged target killers.

Welcoming the establishment of new medical universities, the SDF pointed out that careful planning was required and merely upgrading a medical college to university is not desirable. It was observed that in primary care centres there are no ECG machines and necessary life-saving drugs for the cases who suffer from heart attack.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 12^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (12)

Mohammad Khan Sial | 13 years ago | Reply @Bangash: Dear Bangash! I am sorry on your thinking. The doctors living in UK originally belong to Pakistan and a large number of students belonging to their families are studying here. They have write to comment. Please think twice for passing such remarks in future.

SHAHID WAZIR | 13 years ago | Reply HEC must be abolished...

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XYZ | 13 years ago | Reply its the outcome of poking the fake degrees

Jameel ur Rasheed | 13 years ago | Reply This is not unexplainable!

Saad Durrani | 13 years ago | Reply Ohreally! UK Chapter. Stay out of it.

Amjad | 13 years ago | Reply @Tariq: these goof does not knew that HEC would dissoloved amongst the ministries at federal level as these function in FLL1 and FLL2 and only the universities would now be financed by the provinces and no additional finances would be provided by te federal govt, as they had to meet this expenditure from their share awarded in the NFC

Bangash | 13 years ago | Reply What does a doctors group in UK have to do with HEC ?!!

A R Azad | 13 years ago | Reply Stupid idea by stupid and selfish group of people just to support PPP which from its creation has done nothing for the betterment of the poor masses and now is all set to deprive poor students from any chance of getting Higher Education. PPP is a party of landlords and always protects their interests. Shame and course on PPP

Tariq | 13 years ago | Reply Seems some provinces can't produce quality students hence they cannot compete with rest of the Pakistani students across the country. If merit prevails and scholarships are given to intellegent students only such voices will be heard. Have seen on TV how the exams are held in some areas lately. Lets not deprive the country by letting the educated get the dual nationality and serve other nations.....

azhar | 13 years ago | Reply SDF UK is trying to get their half century old dissolution to be reversed on the cost of devolution of HEC. I request them not to their benefits on cost of a national reputed and credible institute.

Ali Jan | 13 years ago | Reply it seems that the rulers and the extremist have joined hands to curd education sector. the present government's resolve to dissolve the higher education commission has shown it passion and love for education sector. more then 5000 hundred student has gone abroad for PhDs on the HEC scholarships.the HEC was the first to take step for the improving of standared of research in Pakistan. it has given new trends in research and vision. extremist are there to set on fire the educational institutions. they want more and more youngsters to come towards them. only the less education in society can provide them the nursery of suicide bombers and youth ready for terrorist attacks. may the HEC may be penalized for the fake degrees case. it means Jamshaid Dasty has won and the degree is the loser. government has deputed Raza Rabbani to decide the fate of HEC and the pseudo intellectual among the present political lot is trying to provide relief to under educated politicians by dissolving the HEC. government has stopped many trained just because of the bad performance. the HEC performance was fantastic. the sane people failed to understand was it is been targeted and why the government is trying towing the line of extremists whose agenda is to eradicate education from our society.

Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Everyone has become selfish, the Sindh Doctors Forum thinks only thinks for their own benefits which they get when HEC would be in the hand of provinces. That time, these kind of people would give the exams in their own houses not at the examinations hall. The HEC should be in jurisdiction of Federal Government to avoid its misuse by the Sindhi Waderars and Sardars.

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