The Punjab government has postponed the first professional MBBS Part II annual examinations for one month due to dengue outbreak in the province. The decision came in response to a protest of medical students in front of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Saturday.
Students of different medical colleges of Lahore staged a protest for postponement of their examination scheduled to be held in October. The protest aggravated the traffic situation on adjacent roads including canal road where the traffic was already clogged due to Canal Road Widening Project.
The protesters moved to Alhamra where they blocked the way of Punjab chief minister coming out from a dengue awareness seminar and presented their demands before him, after which the CM instructed to take required action. Health Secretary Jahanzeb Khan held a meeting with medical students and decided to postpone the exams.
This exam was earlier scheduled for September 27. The new schedule of the said examination will be issued by UHS on Monday. The spokesman said that all other examination would start as per the notified schedule. The first professional MBBS Part I annual examination would commence on October 18, second professional Part II exams on November 10, third professional on November 22 and final professional MBBS annual examinations for all affiliated medical colleges would commence on December 24.
Similarly, first professional BDS annual examination would start on October 3, second professional on October 11, third professional on October 15 and final professional BDS annual examination would commence on November 15, he added.