As many as 150 medical students resumed street protest in front of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Tuesday.
The protesters seemed to have calmed down on Thursday after the UHS set up a committee to probe the matter. On Thursday they again gathered in front of the UHS building and blocked the traffic for about an hour. They also blocked access to the emergency ward of Shaikh Zayed Hospital.
Sajjad Haider, a student at the Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, told The Express Tribune that 103 of the 300 students who had taken the exam had failed.
He said that the UHS should either grant them grace marks or cancel the results.
One of the protesters identifying himself as Mian Omer said he had passed the exam but joined the protest in support of his friends who had failed.
After police nudged them away from the UHS, some of the protesters took the protest to the Governor’s House. The sit-in on the Mall lasted for about half-an-hour. It ended after a Governor’s House official assured them that the issue will be reported to the governor and they will be given justice.
After the protest and the sit-in, some of the students also met Special Secretary Dawood Bareach at the Civil Secretariat. Muhammad Faizan, one of the students who attended the meeting, said that they will again meet with the secretary on Thursday (today).
He said the secretary had assured them that a committee of professors would be formed to look into the matter.
UHS spokesperson, on the other hand, said that a committee had already been established to look into the matter. He denied that the questions were out of syllabus.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 29th, 2012.
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Just 103 failed out of 300?? They shoud compare themseves with the CA students! I wonder if CA students start such protests, there wont be anyone who wouldnt be involved in it! So these students should stop crying and start studying!
lol! thy shud have used this energy in studying insted! =p
dissapointing, you cant be passes simply as you protest, other exams are also difficult ans why shld they cancel it what about the197 who passed , it is a mere 34.3 % ie a pass result of 65.7% which quite good. it is v shameful if they get their results reverted by undue protests
...are they serious?
I guess protesting and rallying is alot more feasible than actually studying. They are studying to be Doctors, the standards for medical care providers should be high.