An impetuous clause

The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has withheld renewal of registration of several thousand doctors by a sudden change in its rules. It has decreed that each doctors must attend 40 days of re-education classes held at only three or four points in the country. The spirit of the decision is good but the method of its enforcement is totally wrong.
There are thousands of doctors working in every corner of the country – some of them in places that are quite inaccessible. It is impossible for such doctors to report to Karachi, Islamabad or Lahore. These re-education classes should be held at every district headquarters hospital of the country to make them practical. The PM&DC should allow a three-year moratorium on the refresher clause to get things ready for it. If the PM&DC sticks to its immediate enactment demand then thousand of doctors will be disqualified and the void created thus will be filled by quacks who are already wreaking havoc with people’s health.
Kaleemullah
Muzaffargarh