Pakistan, April 30 -- The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council's directive ordering medical institutions to screen students' mental health arrives late to a crisis that has been building in plain sight. The memo requires campuses to conduct structured screenings at admission and annually, refer cases to psychiatry departments, and treat psychological distress as an institutional responsibility. It follows a run of deaths that no longer feels incidental. A student at Muhammad Medical College in Mirpurkhas took her life this month. In February, another had died after jumping from a medical university hostel in Lahore. Weeks earlier, two students at a private university in the same city fell to their deaths from campus buildings. These traged...
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