Affordability: 41 foreign students to study medicine in Punjab

Out of the 41 candidates five are American, four British, three Canadian, three Turkish, one from Thailand, Ireland.

LAHORE:

Around 41 foreign students – 11 male and 30 female – have been admitted in seven public medical colleges in the Punjab this year.

The candidates were nominated by the Economic Affairs Division.

The students have been accepted at King Edward Medical College University, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Nishtar Medical College Multan, Punjab Medical College Faisalabad, Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi and Quaid-i-Azam Medical College Bahawalpur.

Out of the 41 candidates five are American, five Yemeni, four Iraqi, four British, four Iranian, four Nepalese, three Canadian, three Turkish, three Sudanese, two Somali, and one each from Thailand, Mauritius, Ireland and Bangladesh.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 5^th, 2011.