Foreign medical graduates seek provisional licences

Covid-19 has also made it impossible to hold the licence exams

PESHAWAR: More than 5,000 medical graduates, aligned under the ‘Pakistan Foreign Doctor's Alliance’ have demanded that they should be granted provisional licences so that they can complete their house job or start private practice before they are subject to licence exams.

Addressing a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, representatives of the association said that they have written to the relevant authorities to allow them to practice.

They said that on the one hand, the government claims that it has insufficient medical practitioners during the ongoing novel coronavirus (Covid-19) while on the other it is not allowing a large number of trained medical professionals to practice.

The virus has also made it impossible to hold the licence exams.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 21^st, 2020.