Govt dissolves PMDC, establishes Pakistan Medical Commission.

ISLAMABAD -- The federal government on Sunday dissolved the existing body of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and established a new organization, Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), to regulate medical profession in the country.

According to an official of the ministry of national health services, President Dr Arif Alvi signed a new ordinance titled 'Pakistan Medical Commission Ordinance 2019' in order to regulate and control the medical profession by establishing uniform minimum standard of medical education and training and recognition of qualifications in medicine and dentistry.

He added that the current PMDC had to be dissolved for the implementation of the new ordinance and the government had directed the temporary shutting down of the offices of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.

This would ensure protection of essential records and assets of PMDC while the offices would remain closed for one week, he added.

He said the PMC would be a body corporate consisting of the Medical and Dental Council, the National Medical and Dental Academic Board and the National Medical Authority, which would act as a Secretariat of the Commission.

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