Staff Reporter Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhter on Monday approved establishment of two separate colleges at the Karachi Medical and Dental College (KMDC). The decision was made in a meeting jointly chaired by the Mayor and chairman of the KMDC’s governing body. According to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) spokesman, the college of dentistry and medicine would act as different colleges having separate academic councils. However, he said that the governing body for both the colleges would remain same. The spokesman said that the decision would not have any financial implications on the educational institution already suffering from financial crunch. “The heads of both the dentistry and medicine departments are elevated as the principals of the colleges,” he said. The meeting also decided to elevate the status of the School of Nursing Abbasi Shaheed Hospital as College of Nursing.
