TIMERGARA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said the district headquarters hospital would soon get the status of a teaching hospital as classes in the Timergara Medical College (TMC) would start from next year.

Addressing a function in Rani area, where the college will be housed in a government building till its own building is ready, on Monday, he said establishment of the medical college had been his dream which had been given practical shape by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

Provincial minister for finance Muzafar Syed, deputy commissioner Attaur Rehman, project director TMC Dr Shaukat Ali, district nazim Mohammad Rasool Khan, MPAs Saeed Gul, Izazul Mulk Afkari, and area elders attended the function.

Earlier, the TMC project director briefed the JI chief about the progress on the project and said its PC-1 had been prepared according to the requirements of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, which had been submitted to the health department.

He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had allocated Rs3 billion for the medical college, adding all arrangements had been finalised to start classes at the college from next session.

Sirajul Haq said the medical students of Lower and Upper Dir, Chitral, Bajaur and Malakand Agency would benefit from the college. `All the credit of TMC goes to the local MPAs who had pursued the government to approve the project,` Mr Haq said. Correspondent