Islamabad: On Monday, The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) agreed in principle to increase fee for private medical colleges subject to specific conditions.

All the private sector medical colleges have been informed that fees can just be increased to no more than 8 lakh if they guarantee admissions are on merit, improve infrastructure, provide free medical education to five percent aspirants and submit an affidavit that they will follow the given agreement.

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On the other hand, the management of the private sector medical institutes claims that considering the annual inflation index, fee of every student should be increased from Rs 642, 000 to Rs 1.3 million.

The council keep on saying that fee cannot be increased to more than 8 lakh and decided to hire an audit firm to calculate the expenditure of colleges.

After presiding over a meeting of the council, the president of PMDC Dr Shabir Lehri told the media sources that the Supreme Court had in 2010 taken suo moto notice of the fee issue of medical colleges after which it was decided that the fee of every student would be Rs 5, 50,000 which would be increased by seven percent annually.

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“The fee was increased to Rs6, 42,000 in 2013 and the council has been trying so that the fee is not raised because the private sector medical colleges have not made good on some of the promises that they made. Furthermore, the council had also get some complaints that the private sector medical institutes also demand bribes in the name of donations at the time of admissions,” he added.

Dr Lehri said that the colleges have been told that if they wish to increase the fee, they will have to some steps to certify clearness, merit, quality of education as well as facilities for the aspirants and that institutes also have to fulfill their mutual social responsibility.

He also said that the 2012 regulations made obligatory for each private institute to provide free education to five percent aspirants and that the large number of colleges were violating the rule.

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“Mainly we are paying attention on merit and just capable aspirants should be admitted into medical institutes. So we have recommended that all the medical institutes display a list of their candidates on its official website and also the list of shortlisted aspirants after the admissions. Further, the colleges can demand post-dated cheques from the aspirants when they are applying for admissions,” he added.

As the private sector medical colleges desired to increase the fee to Rs 1.3 million, an audit firm would be appointed to determine the expenditures of government as well as private sector medical colleges, Dr Lehri said, adding that colleges would be required to submit an affidavit saying they will not break up the terms and conditions plus they will be implemented for admissions in the upcoming year.

Lehri said just those institutes which submit affidavits will be considered for increase in fee.

 

 

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