PMDC Takes Action Against Doctors With Invalid Registration
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published January 16, 2019 | 02:09 AM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Jan, 2019 ) :Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) Tuesday taken strict action against the doctors having invalid council registration.
According to PMDC, the council has decided to ensure the countrywide renewal and registration process of doctors within a month.
It added, the council took this action on the direction of Senate health committee and directed all the doctors with invalid registrations to renew their registrations immediately in order to practice medicine.
It said as per Pakistan Registration of Medical and Dental Practitioners Regulations, 2008 "Practitioner means a medical practitioner or a dentist possessing any recognized medical or dental qualification whose name is maintained on the register of the council".
Talking to media, Acting Registrar PMDC Dr Sitara Hassan said that as per part II of regulation (9) "only those Names shall be retained on the register who have paid the dues of the council and only these names shall be considered to have valid registration".
She said that the medical and dental practitioners, specialists, faculty with expired and invalid registration and medical officers have been directed in their own interest to get their PMDC registration renewed as per PMDC Ordinance 1962 amended through an Act 2012 within a month, failing which PMDC will initiate strict action in exercise of its powers conferred under PMDC ordinance 1962.
She added that the details of doctors with invalid registrations status is also available on PMDC website.
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