Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
A legislative body of Upper House of parliament on Monday directed the ministry of health to take strict action against illegal nursing colleges across the country and particularly in Sindh where 90 percent collage were found ghost.
The directions were issued during Senate Sub-Committee on National Health, which held today at parliament house while Senator Rubina Khalid was on chair. The meeing transpired from the working paper furnished by the Pakistan Nursing Council on the List of colleges affiliated with it that 90 pc of colleges in Sindh province are ghost colleges having no direct affiliations with Hospitals for clinical Practice. The meeting was called to discuss the matter of fake institutions registered with Pakistan Nursing Council, their affiliations with the Hospitals and fake Degrees/certificates issued to nurses. The sub-committee lamented the slow progress of the matter and inquired on the reasons of its delay “the matter is pending since a year now ‘the chair remarked “shows the power of the PNC which seems to be even greater than the Prime Minister “she further added.
She said that this is evident since the PMC failed to implement the directions of the Senate committee as well at the National Assembly committee of the repatriation of Mrs. Yasmeen Azad, Assistant Registrar Pakistan Nursing Council “The status quo of the PNC is filled with filth” she said.
