Justice Nisar calls for improving quality of medical education

Appreciates efforts of ad-hoc body for streamlining the functioning of the council

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar on Monday said that there was a strong need for improving the quality of medical education in the country.

He visited Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) on Monday for the first time in the history of PMDC to review the performance of the ad-hoc governing council of the regulatory body.



The PMDC president along with the ad-hoc council members gave presentation regarding the functioning and progress of the council up till now. After the presentation, the CJP appreciated the efforts of the ad-hoc council for streamlining the functioning of PMDC and showed his satisfaction.

The CJP emphasised the importance of PMDC as it is the apex regulatory body and it deals with the most important areas of health care system that is medical and dental profession, education and medical and dental institutions as defined under Section 6 of the Medical /Dental PM&DC Ordinance 1962 by Amended Act 2012.

He added that he expects more efforts to be done for enhancing the quality of medical education by the adhoc council to ensure improvement in functioning of PM&DC and to produce quality doctors.



The Supreme Court in January this year had disbanded its governing council, constituting an ad hoc council to run affairs of the regulator of medical education chaired by a Justice (retd) Mian Shakirullah Jan. Private medical and dental colleges had challenged the PMDC set up, claiming that it was illegal and functioning unlawfully because it was created under the PMDC (Amendment) Ordinance 2015. The law, they argued, had lapsed on April 25, 2016.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2018.