The Pharmacy Council of Pakistan (PCP) has barred 14 universities and colleges from admitting students to their Pharm-D programmes and issued show-cause notices to 29 other institutions, bringing the total number of institutions facing action to 43.
The institutions barred from admissions include the University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore; Iqra University’s Islamabad campus; and Abasyn University.
Those served show-cause notices include the University of Sindh, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Dewan University, Karachi, Bharghari Institute of Pharmacy, Matli, Bahauddin Zakariya University and Nishtar Medical University.
According to the lists issued by the council, the 14 institutions barred from admissions comprise six in Punjab, seven in Islamabad and one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The 29 institutions served notices include 22 in Punjab, four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and three in Sindh.
The three institutions in Sindh served notices are the University of Sindh, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Dewan University and Bharghari Institute of Pharmacy, Matli, district Badin.
The council raised a serious objection to the University of Sindh’s pharmacy building also housing the Department of Eastern Medicine and Surgery.
At Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Dewan University, it noted that the pharmacy laboratories were small and that other programmes were being run in the building designated for Pharm-D.
The council also pointed to the absence of a computer laboratory and a pharmacy library.
The PCP expressed a lack of confidence in the faculty at Bharghari Institute of Pharmacy and directed the institution to appoint qualified and professionally competent teachers without delay.
The action against three institutions in Sindh has brought renewed attention to the standard of Pharm-D education in the province and compliance with relevant rules, raising questions about the monitoring of Pharm-D programmes and enforcement of academic standards.
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