Mushrooming of medical colleges

Private medical colleges and the government’s self-financed seats cost more than five million rupees for a student

NAWABSHAH: In Pakistan, the obsession to become a doctor crosses all the limits. Exhausting all their resources, people try their best to send their children in the field of medicine or health sciences. Regardless of the potential, interest or capabilities of the child and the prospects of him or her becoming a good doctor, they are bound to choose the field already decided by their guardians. As a result, we can see a mushroom growth of medical colleges in our country but their priority is charging high fees.



Private medical colleges and the government’s self-financed seats cost around or more than five million rupees for a student. Unfortunately, this shows that for medical colleges minting money is a priority and not human lives that would be saved by future doctors.



Further, it is important to state that the quality of education is not as good as it should be. The colleges and universities are not playing the important role they are supposed to play. They are producing graduates who have degrees with good grades, but very low quality of professional knowledge and skills. No doubt, there are few remarkable students. This, however, is an exception and exceptions don’t make the rule.

M Faisal Mughal 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 5^th, 2017.

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