UHS Issues Notification Regarding The Reopening Of Medical and Dental Colleges

The University of Health Sciences has issued a notification regarding the reopening of medical and dental colleges. The announcement has been made on the official Twitter account of the university and the decision has been approved by the government of Punjab, special healthcare and medical education department According to the notification, all the medical and dental colleges, nursing school/colleges, paramedical/allied health sciences schools/colleges will resume the academic activities from today, 27th May 2021. The decision has been made by reviewing the situation of the pandemic as the concerned authorities have allowed the resumption of the physical classes. 

Reopening of Medical and Dental Colleges

As per the decision of the university of health sciences, the students of 3rd year, 4th year of BDS and 3rd year, 4th year, and final year of MBBS are required to take the on-campus classes according to the SOPs devised by the government. The vice-chancellors of the respective institutes have to monitor the vaccination arrangements for all the students. Earlier in the meeting of the national command and operation center, it had been decided to shut down all the educational institutes including schools, colleges, universities due to the upsurge in the number of coronavirus cases. 

Implementation of SOPs

The medical/dental college will be responsible to ensure the strict implementation of SOPs to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Moreover, all the concerned medical superintendents are directed to relieve the nursing students and nursing officers who are admitted in the post-RN-BSc nursing/one-year specialization course to attend their classes as the schedule communicated vide specialized healthcare and order of medical education department. The UHS has also notified the students that no sports/cultural/another event would be held in the public/private medical and dental colleges, nursing school/colleges, paramedical/allied health sciences schools/colleges until further orders. To get further updates, stay connected with us and have the latest information.