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Higher Education Commission (HEC) Cuban medicine scholarship
Medical students leave for Cuba

Islamabad, July 14, 2008: After a painful seven-month wait, around 65 more youth on Sunday left for Cuba to study general medicine on scholarship. Fifty-five youth, including four girls, boarded various flights for the Caribbean island from Islamabad and around 10 from Karachi. They will have a stopover at Dubai on the way to their destination, a Higher Education Commission (HEC) official said.

These students are part of the last batch whose departure hit snags almost seven months ago after Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) raised certain objections to the programme for which they had been enrolled in Cuba. A doctor or a dentist requires his/her degree's recognition by the PMDC for practice in Pakistan. There followed deliberations among the HEC, the PMDC and Cuban embassy representatives on the subject and a PMDC team's visit to the North American republic to examine medical teaching and laboratory facilities.

The distraught youth, totalled around 640, heaved a sigh of relief last month when the PMDC gave much-desired green light to their programme. Under the plan, the students will be sent to Cuba in phases till August 3, Muhammad Sadiq of the HEC said. He said that the HEC was bearing travel and other expenses of the students. He said that students would be paid 50 Euros each as daily allowance and would be bound to return to Pakistan for service for at least five years. Daily Times
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