New entity: Body to protect ‘KEMU prestige’

LAHORE: Several Masters of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine programmes students at the King Edward Medical University on Saturday announced the formation of the Post-Graduate Students Council to protect what they called the “KEMU prestige”.

Addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, Council President Usman Dar said it would support the KEMU administration do the right thing. He said since the upgrade of the King Edward Medical College to university, the standards had been high.

He said, “There are some institutions that produce specialists in Pakistan but their degrees are not recognised abroad. Yet, they charge thousands of rupees from doctors in the name of workshops and registration.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 30^th, 2012.