PMA blasts UHS for irregularities in entrance test

LAHORE: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has alleged irregularities in the entrance test for admissions to medical/dental colleges of the Punjab held under the aegis of University of Health Sciences, Lahore.

In a joint statement issued here on Monday, PMA Lahore chapter President Prof Yasmin Rashid, General Secretary Dr Tanveer Anwar, Vice President Dr Abrar Ashraf Ali, Finance Secretary Dr Kamran Saeed and Joint Secretary Dr Salman Kazmi, PMA Centre President Dr Sarwar Chaudhry and Joint Secretary Dr Shahid Malik have said that the irregularities committed in the UHS entrance test had put a big question mark on the credibility of the entire examination system of the university.

They claimed that wrong answers were given in at least 20 questions, late and wrong distribution of question papers at various centres, wrong answer keys and wrong frame of papers were some of the major anomalies during the entrance test. They said that the inefficiency and irregularities committed by the UHS during the test had played with the educational future of the students, which was unacceptable. “PMA condemns it,” they said. They further said that UHS had changed the result of last year’s entrance test three times. “It has given extreme mental torture to the students and their parents,” they said.