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Merging Jinnah hospital and SMC: Confused Sindh Medical College students call off protest for now

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09.07.2025
Students of Sindh Medical College (SMC) called off their protest on Saturday against the elevation of their college to the status of a university, saying that they felt as if they “were being played by both the alumni (pushing for the college’s elevation) and the SMC administration.” “We had full plans for a protest today, in fact, we had everyone gathered as well but we realised there is a great deal of confusion about what exactly we were protesting for,” admitted Mustafa, a third-year student. “The administration initially told us that we would no longer be awarded a Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) degree should SMC be elevated.” He explained that now the administration and the SMC alumni were saying students currently enrolled under DUHS will be given its degree and the elevation........

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